Motorsports, Movies Keep Helivision Flying
The Cineflex HD cameras on Helivision’s Bells capture all the action below.
The Cineflex HD cameras on Helivision’s Bells capture all the action below.

Helivision sprang from the heart of Nascar country–Concord, N.C.–mainly to provide helicopter aerial camera platforms for race coverage. That was 18 years ago. Motor sports is still a large part of the company’s business, accounting for many of its flight hours between February and November and constantly keeping its two camera helicopters, hauling trucks and crews on the road. “In June 2011 I think I was home all of two days,” says pilot Kevin Knotts, whose father, Buddy, founded and still runs the company today. “Our families are used to it. It is what we do.”

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