In my 3+ decades of work in the “production” community, a third of my employment has been in companies which delivered live-action video & film programs. This means that when I wasn’t operating high-end electronic graphic systems, I was helping out on sets, moving lights, taping down cables, and WATCHING & Learning – helped me a lot in doing sketches for DPs, directors and clients (DP- directors of photography.)

About 1976 Steadicam came available for aerial cinematography. The elaborate counter-balanced and gyroscopically stabilized helicopter rig the size of a large refrigerater had to be bolted to the airframe around the passenger door. The camera operator sat on the sill with a safety harness, with feet braced on the skid.

Anyone who watched the absurd slo-mo cavalcade of the unconvictable celebrity murderer, or any of the hundreds of televised high-speed car chases around the country, has been watching these via the highly-sophisticated camera mount descendants of those early Steadicam units.

I don’t know how a professional still camera would be mounted in a high-performance fighter jet, but it’s completely absurd to expect the pilot to handle anything but a snapshot with one hand… Well, I suppose the jet could be on autopilot, but that sounds like something that would get you grounded or cashiered if done while flying close formation with AF-1.