Keith Breazeal Video Productions

This is the new digital VIO-POV.1 solid state camera and video recorder mounted in the USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon, commonly called the "Viper". The POV.1 records in DVD quality on an SD card with eighty-three minutes recording time on a two Giga-byte card. The recording time was sufficient to get two flights recorded without changing the card or the batteries.

**POV.1 camera head mounting method:

Bill Reesman's "MiG Magic" was one of the most popular airshow acts in the mid to late '90s. The MiG-15 was re-designed to be supersonic by extending the fuselage four feet, adding an afterburner, and sweeping the wings back ten more degrees to forty-five degrees. The result was the MiG-17 capable of Mach 1.2 or 714 mph. The MiG-17 was also a much more stable aircraft and capable of tighter turning in air-to-air combat. Bill had a lot of respect for the MiG-17 when he flew the F-100 for 320 missions in Vietnam.

Always an airshow favorite, the Blue Angels "Fat Albert" Demo at the California Capital Airshow 2008 was pretty wild on Sunday. The crosswinds were wreaking havoc on all airshow performers, including the "Fat Albert" Demo. You can see the steep approach angle that is normal, but watch the nose of the C-130 point about thirty degrees off centerline as the crew corrects for the crosswind drift.

This is a video frame from the U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper West Flight Demonstration Team at the California Capital Airshow 2008.

I did a three day shoot with the team and edited a video that gives you the view as if you are flying in the back seat during the flight demo. This version is the first of two.

The second version will have many more camera angles, including the cockpit camera angle facing back looking at the pilot and the HUD (Heads Up Display).

Watch the video!

Fly with Capt. Russ "Spicoli" Piggott, Viper West, during an "all out" airshow demo at the 2008 California Capital Airshow. The cockpit camera angle is as if you are riding in the back seat. Viper West is the U.S. Air Force F-16 West Coast Aerial Demonstration Team. The F-16 "Fighting Falcon" is commonly called the Viper by its pilots.

The Viper West Team, one of two F-16 demo teams in Air Combat Command, is attached to the 388th Fighter Wing, and is home based at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.