views from the sky - Seyssins

Long time ago (2000) i built a support for a chromatic trashable camera. The heavy device worker well on my 1.4 m, 1.5kg wide methanol powered plane but was limited to 1 picture a flight because it it not possible to re-arm the camera. i have a nice picture of the fields from the sky but without me on it unfortunately. So i decided to make myself busy with a system where more than one pictures can be taken during a flight.

The second version is an ultra light(15 g) trigger for a digital spycam (40 g). The purpose is to place it on the 290 g electric airplane and take pictures from the sky.
the first problem i faced was the need for power to allow the plane to actually take off with its extra weight on the shoulders and additionnal air flow disturbances close to the wings. So i installed a brushless motor on the plane with a huge propeller. Utch!
now it flies!

thank you Sarah for the nice pictures ;)

Below are the first pictures taken with the fantastic device.

The small grey dot on the left top is me!

Nice views of the swimming pool. (I feel better to fly when it is covered for winter)

The house in Seyssins....... and the cars close to the swimming pool

the trees ...

Some artistic views

La dent de Crolles (massif de Chartreuse) 21-10-06

This is a map of the path we followed. We climbed through "pas de l'oreille" to reach the panoramic view with the cross and after some rest (for me) of contemplation we went down by the "trou du glas".
Note the yellow "mousquetons" on the picture are not there for nothing....it is really steep... but not enough to make us give up!




here is a link with the pictures from Sarah:
i recommend to skip fast over some of the photos where i appear .... ;)
just copy paste the following to your browser to see the pictures.
(clicking on it leads to a login page for some magic reason)
http://vanderbilt.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2036404&id=4706339&l=c7aa8

here some of the pictures taken with "mon appareil photo casse cou incassable"


"Ricerdo" just got rid of the scary steps!

waw! we already climbed all that!


Interesting view of the consequences of erosion on Ca(Mg...) CO3 rocks. The aperture of the crevasse is +/- 10 cm wide. Ups lets go away from behind it!!!



A view of grenoble from the top:



"les retardataires" & "the cave" we just got out from. Where is Maxime???


ach! crazy peoples!!!



Sometimes you meet strange animals with ugly tongues in the mountains...



I am a lonesome cowboy...far away from home...
The end.

Bike trip -8th oct 2006

It is just the story of a trip with friends from Grenoble to the lakes of "le bois francais" taking the most adventurous, bumby and sinuous way to reach it.

it begun with stress for 1 of us because a air chamber broke while pumping air in it... so ricardo said "please 5 min guys" ...and 5 min later the bike was ready. When we have a problem, we know who to call from now on... ;)



Suxi is very light sensitive...

how much longer do we have to watch behind us ?

a terrible bike crash was avoided at the last moment...

Once again a very dangerous expedition with these people!


We all succeeded to pass the muddy river without falling... sorry no nasty picture this time...

Sarah (the newcomer of the gang) bough a new bike and she was scared that it could be stolent since it looks very new. So we proposed to throw mud on her bike so that it looks a bit less new. I think she was scared that if she accepts, we do not wait for her to leave the bike before starting... why?

the trip to belgium for the "fiançailles" of my sister

i plannified to make a small work on my car to get it working perfectly but the morning we had a meeting to the garage, it was impossible to start the engine... battery broken... glups. i only imagine if it had happenend coming to belgium during a road-break... or worse on sunday morning before coming back to grenoble ... (all the garages closed... ) i would have to delay my departure till the next monday...

sometimes i am lucky.... :)

Lac de Laffrey

We found a nice place close to one of the three lakes close to Laffrey, at 900m altitude.

Once arrived in the proximity of the Lake, i asked contribution to my friends to inflate the rescue tyre.

the best is coming with the pictures of susana's camera...(soon)

The look of susana is terrific with the tyre!

I saw some small fishes in the water, this indicates that the water is not so much polluted.
The water was slightly colder than in Le Paladru a week before and we had some clouds coming 1 h after we were installed.

Again a great afternoon making what children do ... hehe

Le lac de Paladru

Le lac de Paladru is the 5th biggest french lake (in water surface). It is located +/- 40 km north to Grenoble. I am not surprised that subaquatic archeology researches occur there.
Walking around the lake desperately to find a decent beach took us some time since it is full of private beaches...

http://paysvoironnais.info/fr/info_pratique/lacdepaladru_zoom.htm

Is it my rhinoceros skin and my 7 years old mental age that made me swim so much? (i expect some comments on it!!!)

jumping on the tyre.......................trapped on the tyre........coming back after the hard time!

not yet fully decided..............."how is it that i am not drown?"....the paparazzi having fun on us

The water was so warm that the fresh effect expected by swimming was limited. I still have this image of boiling water in my mind...
Susana and Ricardog were not as long as me in the water...

Funny animals happen sometimes on the borders of the lakes in France...

Like a good spanish friend said "Hola Ricardo tienes el pelo muy largo!!"

nice pony tail!....do you want to know what they are doing?

After moving so much, some noises were audible from the stomach area so we hunt for a small shop to eat a kebab and hot dogs...miam
What is the next lake we will go? ....Aiguebelette near Chambery?