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‘HOMEBUILT’ CAMERAS
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Marty Mueller,
EAA 474641, got involved in designing
and building special-format cameras for
the giant screen industry. The cameras
in use at the time were bulky and
awkward to use, but shot magnificent
images, most of which ended up in
IMAX theaters.
Marty and his wife, Barbra, started
making their own more user-friendly
IMAX format cameras, which they
rented to moviemakers. They also
designed and built new 3-D IMAX
cameras for filming the building of
the International Space Station (ISS),
one of which was used by fellow EAA
member Jim Voss, EAA 137893, while
onboard the ISS. Those cameras were
considerably smaller than the previous
3-D cameras, but while weightless in
space, they were still too heavy for easy
use back on land.
Marty started a new design five
years ago, building the parts in his
MASTER PILOT AWARD
AFTER 54 YEARS of flying, Robert Lee
O’Connor, EAA 1927, received the
2010 FAA Wright Brothers Master
Pilot Award for dedicated service
in aviation safety. Robert started his
airline career at North Central Airlines
(formerly Republic Airlines), flying
DC-3s, Convairs, and jets, making
his retirement flight in 1983 in a DC-
9. After a three-part series by Paul
Poberezny appeared in Mechanix
Illustrated magazine in 1955, Robert
built one of the first Model C Baby
Aces. Throughout the years, he has
owned 47 different aircraft, restoring
several of them. He has logged more
than 36,000 hours, has never had
an accident, incident, violation, or
reprimand, and has never failed an
oral or flight test.
shop behind his house. That camera is the
Gemini 3-D that Stephen Low used for
filming Legends of Flight. Its small size and
light weight allowed the filmmakers access
to places that were previously impossible
to film. The fact that operators could hand
carry the camera allowed them to clear
security and capture shots at the Paris
Air Show while the truck with the bigger
cameras waited in line for hours.
