Painting with Light

The winter is long and dark in Sweden. Fortunately, LED lights has evolved quite a bit in recent years, and for a few dollars you can get very good lighting on your or multirotor. Not only can you easily see the orientation of the craft in the dark, the leds are also strong enough to light the environment.

Leds are available in different colors, but I have chosen to have strong white light in the front and red on the tail of my homebuilt tricopter.

When I started flying in the dark, I got to wonder how it would look on a long exposure photo. As it turned out, you can really see the flight path through the air. On closeups you can see each LED as a separate path, and with them lined up it gives a nice futuristic effect.

Then I realized that I really got a light pencil in my hands which I could use to draw different figures. As I can't see track when I'm flying, I have to imagine the final picture in my head.

If you add some more advanced flying like loops, you can draw really strange things. It would even be possible to have different colors that you can turn on and off during flight, and then you could draw any picture you want if your flying is good enough!

I challange you to draw amazing things and post them to this thread at the Flitetest forum!