Monday, February 25, 2019

kinematics - View from a helicopter rotor: why is the horizon distorted?


This video ("rotor panorama") was captured by a camera attached to the rotor head of a radio-controlled helicopter, with the frame rate set to the rotor's frequency. During a long segment of the video, the horizon looks distorted:


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What causes this distortion?




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