REFLECTOR:Secondary fire detection

[Pat Shea]

Hiroo,

I'm leaning towards keeping the small CCD cams in the
engine compartment primarily for fire detection. It
looks like it's going to take two to get full coverage
of the critical areas. There may also be some benefit,
at least during the tweaking stage, of being able to
see/record what's going on inside the cowl during
flight (tuft testing?). Two cams either means an A/B
switch, two monitors, or a split screen. I was able to
find a company that sells a color, waterproof,
"helmet" cam w/ a cool aluminum protective mount:
www.helmetcamera.com. I haven't had a chance to look
at LCD monitors yet (or the ability to split the
screen) - any leads on a good source for these??

Pat

--- Hiroo Umeno <humeno@microsoft.com> wrote:
> One idea may be to install the "wingtip cam".  I
> have been researching
> this but one could install a small CCD camera on the
> wingtip (perhaps on
> the lower winglet) that can be panned.  Not only it
> would offer a way to
> "see" if your cowl is blowing smoke / fire but it
> will also serve as
> "rear-view mirror" when starting engine, and offer a
> feed for your
> in-flight footage.
> 
>  
> 
> The cameras can be had for less than $100 these
> days, and a small LCD
> monitors can be had for about the same.
> 
>  
> 
> Hiroo



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