On April 30 we got to be part of a photo shoot for a new car magazine here in Ontario called Autostrada from the Forum Publishing Group. Super nice guys to work with. Hope to do some work with them in the near future on other projects. Visit Autostrada Forum …Read More
Astar/Twinstar Gets Real Camera System
Another exciting day here at Film Helicopters. The new Astar/Twinstar gets a real camera system. COOL. Thanks to Grant Bieman/Pictorvision and Chris Chanda/Aerial Camera Ops. We got to do a max VNE flight right up to 150kts to see how the camera would perform pointed straight ahead and sideways to …Read More
Taking Flight on the C-FXTO
Jan 16, 2015 was a huge day for us. Our various brackets finally took flight on C-FXTO a Twinstar owned by Zimmer Air Services. Just wanted to say thanks to those guys they were great to work with. This was part of a test flight program in which all kinds …Read More
MD500, Ciniflex Camera System Takes Flight
MD500, Ciniflex Camera System takes flight. Finally we were able to fly a real Camera Systems on our MD500 bracket and it flew great. Hopefully testing will now be complete for the MD500, all went well. Woohoo! Max payload was 175lbs.
Testing the 500
Its been years in the making. It finally happened we were able to fly our MD500 bracket for real. It flew great. The aircraft showed no unusual characteristics and behaved like the system wasn’t even there including the rear canister. Can’t wait to fly the real thing.