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Flying High Over Pine Island

406 views · Published 13 January 2016 · 3:23 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: photoguy73 · 2016 · Sports

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This is a flight out to Pine Island Sound from Pine Island Cove, using a Phantom 3 quadcopter.

I have been flying one type of airplane or another since I was 22 years old, pretty much continuously. I flew Navy fighter-bombers off of the USS Enterprise in Vietnam. I flew aerial surveillance for the government for many years in Cessna’s. Then I flew powered parachutes, a type of ultralight aircraft where one sits in the open and flies at only 30 mph. During all those periods in my life I took movies and pictures to show people the amazing things I was seeing. I thought that if I were amazed certainly everyone else would be equally amazed at the unique perspectives and beautiful panoramas that unfold beneath one from an airplane. Fifty years later I thought that as an old man my days of flying were over. But apparently I was wrong. Someone invented the drone. 

These tiny little marvels have amazing capabilities. They navigate through the use of GPS satellites. They fly using four motors, each coordinated and finely tuned by a small computer. They take amazing ultra-high definition video from a camera the size of a golf ball. And they are remotely controlled from the ground. So I am back in the flying business and happily taking pictures and video once again. And sharing them with you.

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