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Originally Posted by brk-lnt
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There is a better list of RC aerial photographers, people have been doing this for years:
www.helicam.org but there are new FAA regs in process that can affect this.
NB, as to graceful flying, there is a LOT of that also! Not everyone like to fly the crazy '3D style' (that's what they call the tumbling flying and crazy antics) that you see in some of these videos. But you are right, model aircraft can have a much greater power to weight ratio these days, and with the advent of LiPo (Lithium Polymer) batteries and other new technologies, RC aircraft can do things that a full scale pilot would never dream of for many reasons.
I'm more of a 'graceful' pilot, but I do enjoy a limited number of aerobatics. And in the past when I was putting a lot of hours in flying a RC Helicopter, I had to practice until I could hover INVERTED, with my blades 4 to 6 inches from the ground, just to see if I could learn it. This is a tough thing to do as all the controls are backwards (left is right, up is down, and so on for pitch, yaw, roll and collective). I don't fly like that very often, it takes a lot of time and I prefer flying more gracefully.
FUN STUFF!
