Wow, glad that worked but pretty dangerous...
Reminded me of a place where I worked in the mid 1980s. A Vice President liked model airplanes and figured out how to get the company to pay for his hobby - he convinced them that a model airplane could carry a spy camera for military use (our company was a military contractor). Note this was back way before drones. The Israelis had just made the news for working on this type of project. So they hired three aeronautical engineers (fresh out of school), a couple electrical engineers (I was one), and even a "professional model airplane flyer". Back then the camera and telemetry electronics were bulky and heavy, so the plane guys were having trouble building a plane that could carry them. Taking off was difficult. So the pro flyer got the idea to mount a sheet of plywood on top of his pickup truck, and try to take off from that as somebody drove the truck down the runway... on the first try (at 80 mph) the plane took off but then immediately dipped down in front of the truck - and got run over and squashed.
That was the end of the program. They'd spent almost three years and a lot of money and only had several smashed planes to show for it (and some video that was almost unwatchable) along with a couple lost planes (careened into the river beside the airport)... the VP retired and the next day everybody was laid off. (I was lucky to have gotten myself reassigned to another project before that happened.) That video was kind-of cool - pretty shaky and ends suddenly with a very quick view of the ground rapidly approaching...