Choppershot started in May 2005 with Bob Ahlers and Marcel Snabilië, we met at a model flight club in the center of Holland.

This version would be mounted on the front side of the helicopter and only had a tilt function (up/down)
Noticing that the vibration are worse at the front, we hung the hothead fully in rubber bands.
The vibration was gone but now we had other problems like swinging of the camera and no left/right panning.
The recordings at circuit Valkensweard for the KRO show called KRO-PK were besides the swinging of the camera successful.

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One of us had a gasser helicopter and started to fly it for the first time.
We talked about the technical details of the machine and noticed that this helicopter had a lot of potential using it as a camera helicopter.
This in sight a second helicopter was bought, as redundancy is needed in this business.

There were some meetings about the design of the hothead keeping weight, flexibility and stabilization in mind.
First we build a two axis hothead hanging underneath the Gasser, because we were asked to fly for the Dutch TMF Awards in Rotterdam.
The main problems designing the hothead were the limitations in budget, weight and time.
Because we only had two weeks to design, build and test the v1.0 hothead we made the decision to place the hothead beneath the Gasser.
After a successful flight day in Rotterdam we decided to design a new version of hothead because we had weight issues.

So we build a 3 axis gyro stabilized hothead.
This version is the actual hothead we use today and has proven to be very successful.
The Version 3 Hothead also has a second camera mounting wich carrys the F.P.P.V camera ussed for the pilot to fly the helicopter as if flying a real heli.