A different view of the mtn

[Florian]

A week or two ago a sculpture was airlifted from the Palm Springs Art Museum to the upper tram station. A GoPro camera was attached to the sculpture for the flight. It's a large file, about 2.4 GB and runs 11 minutes, so it might take a bit of time to open or download.

[link redacted]

Thought you all might enjoy it.

-Florian

[Florian]

So i just got an email from Dropbox that my public links have been disabled due to excessive traffic. Maybe a 2.4 GB file is too big to share. Did the link work for anyone?

-Florian

[Florian]

Seems the limit is 20 GB/day. I need to remove the link. Sorry. I'll see if i can upload to YouTube altho the resolution won't be as good.

-Florian

[zippetydude]

Thanks for the effort Florian. I look forward to seeing it, even on You Tube.

z

[Florian]

Okay, i have the video on YouTube now. Flight time about 7 minutes!

http://youtu.be/ys_uMk3dYFQ

Here are a couple of still pictures of the helicopter and of the art ..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/set ... 823777693/

I'd never seen a helicopter like this. Two counter-rotating rotors and no tail rotor. Very cool machine.

-Florian

[neverwashasbeen]

Thanks for posting Florian. The helicopter is indeed an interesting one. It is a Kaman K-Max, there is a nice article on Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX

[zippetydude]

That was cool Florian. Makes me appreciate how far we go up when we do Skyline. Also, that helicopter pilot did a remarkable job of maintaining almost perfectly neutral bouyancy as they were adjusting the placement. Those guys are amazing. When I used to run the L A Marathon, I would look up at the helicopters before the race - they would hover in the exact same spot without any perceivable motion, as if they were anchored to some invisible building. Anyway, thanks again for the post!

z

[cynthia23]

Wow, I can only echo Zip--that video really makes me appreciate how big this mountain actually is and what a feat hiking up Skyline is. Amazing. (and, I also agree with Zip that the helicopter pilot did a really good job landing that thing!)

Very, very neat video, Florian. Made my day. Thanks so much for posting that, it's definitely worth viewing.

[bluerail]

That really is a cool video Florian, thanks for going through all the trouble to put that up.

Very cool seeing it from that perspective

[lesper4]

That is so cool, many parts of the Skyline trial are recognizable. Thanks!