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Ed Medlin Captures Flight In Shasta Valley, California, USA

At the end of this video, there are photos of the machine behind the camera and the two machines in the video and their pilots. The pilot of the SOMA gyrocopter is Hans Peters and the pilot of the Trike is Paul Morton. There is also a photo of Ed Medlin’s Sport Copter Lightning, the ship that carried his Flip Video camera. He is unable to reach it during flight so it is only filming straight ahead. He was doing the filming so he is not in the video at all. They're hoping to put a bracket on Hans’ gyro so he can film back someday. Hans, Paul and Ed are local pilots and we try to fly together when time allows. Hans shares a hanger with Ed and usually get together on Sundays. Hans’ family owns most of the ranch land around the airport and those are his cows we are flying over.

The flight video was made September 14th, 2008 around noon time or thereabouts. Siskiyou County and Shasta Valley is a great place to do gyro copter flying, there are five airports in the county and they are all friendly.

On the nose of Ed’s ship you can see the mounting bracket for the camera and on the left side of his seat, you can see one of those boat air horns you can buy with replaceable cans of air. Ed said, “I use the horn to  honk at my friends on the ground and at the golf course when we fly by them.  Naturally I don't fly directly over the golf course but around the perimeter.  We seldom fly higher than several hundred feet and most times lower than that.  I have ordered a smoke making kit from Scott Essex in Georgia and hope to have it installed in a few months.”

 

We hope that you all enjoy this video as much as we have enjoyed putting it together. The picture  on the left takes you to the video download. (A larger version is in the chapters area.)  There is also a 1/2 hour video of a flight over that valley in both hi and lower resolution in the chapters area.  Check it out!

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