Helicopter Cherry Drying at Hyperspeed (1080 FHD)

Here's something completely different. I decided to experiment with the GoPro Hero 8's "hyperspeed" feature. It's basically a smoothed out automated timelapse. I had the camera set up in the nosecam position and went flying. It was late in the day and a huge rainstorm had rolled through. All of my clients wanted service. The three of us took off, intending to get it all done. But the wind was howling. Turns out that another thunderstorm had formed behind the one that had just passed. Between the lightning and high winds, it was too much to fly in. We all set down to wait it out. The nosecam caught the lightning stikes.


Although I set down over an orchard almost immediately, I had to pick up and move away. My phone kept ringing and there's no way I could answer it while hovering over the trees. To make matters worse, there's no cell signal in the canyon I was flying in so I had to come out to the mouth of the canyon each time I answered a call. I finally got back over the trees and managed to dry one whole block before the lightning spooked me enough to land.


I landed at another orchard. One of my crew landed where he was flying and the other landed with me. We waited it out, then departed to dry one more block each before it got too dark to fly. Overall, the mission was pretty much a failure, but I know my clients understood. I got no complaints. We wound up flying the next day, too.


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This video was recorded with a GoPro Hero 8 camera (https://amzn.to/2PBlZ4o) mounted on my deck using a clamp mount. It was edited on a iMac using Davinci Resolve 16 software. (Learn more about it here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...) The intro photo shows the same helicopter parked at the landing zone where he started and ended this video. The intro music is by Bob Levitus, famed "Dr. Mac." You can find him here: http://www.boblevitus.com/

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