Long slow flight out to Gunn Point to test out my GoPro 13 with Max lens providing 177 degrees field of view – hence the video name. The camera showing the scenery without me in it is the GoPro 13 and the camera on the wing is a GoPro 11 set to hyperview which is…
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My name’s Mark Christie and I fly a drifter ultralight aircraft out of MKT Airfield near Darwin, the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory. I’ve been flying, filming and taking photographs of remote locations for over a quarter of a century. As the Pilotographer, I take any opportunity I can to find an interesting place to…
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Okay, this is my longest (recorded) and slowest flight yet… At one point off the Eastern end of Indian Island I tracked further east to get a photograph of the entire island’s length, my ground speed was about 15kts. As I turned west to track up the island, suddenly my ground speed was 90 knots.…
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Well that’s the million-dollar question. On the weekends when I’m flying my ultralight over the blue waters around Darwin I looked down and see the many fishing vessels dangling a line or maybe dropping a crab pot into the waters hoping at worst a snare meal for the evening and then further up the scale…
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I have included the full pages where possible and you can click on each image to view the stories from days gone by. Even though this is the same article below, I wanted to include the front page as it is so typically NT. And so we end this little journey down memory lane. Fly…
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