Engineer photographs Miami on the fly

This article was sent to me by Julian Rodriguez. I met Julian at the 2007 Markham Park Jet together. I think the guy in the video (James Good) works with him. Very cool indeed. I know the feeling of being kicked out of places by the police all too well... Great article...Thanks Julian!



BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
nspangler@MiamiHerald.com

A red-and-white radio-controlled model airplane sometimes flies high over Bicentennial Park. It sounds like an angry insect swarm and heads for the new skyscrapers towering over Biscayne Boulevard.

The plane has a three-foot wingspan and a payload consisting of one 5-ounce Pentax digital camera screwed to its fuselage. The thing is an aerial surveillance machine.

With an infrared release that lets him snap the shutter from the ground, a software engineer named James Good has been shooting vast, frighteningly angled Miami cityscapes for the past year.

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SPECTACULAR VIEW: Bayfront Park and the Miami skyline as seen from James Good's radio-controlled model airplane.