This picture shows us tuning the configuration. Everything is hanging from the ceiling. The vehicle, boom and chair all needed to be balanced. We need to be sure to keep oscillations low and that any swings would be dampened, pretty tricky with long boom with a camera on the end. On top of that the camera needed to be pointed at the chair at all times, sounds simple but….
The flight chairs weren’t much heaver then our placeholder foamcore chair. There were made in a movie studio model shop. Even inches away you couldn’t tell them from real chairs until you picked them up. The wood was all balsa with hollow sections and the cushions were fabric over balsa frames. We worried all the time about someone accidentally sitting on one!
