Flightless Parrot,
We must have gone to different colleges on photo' 744 courses...
The shutter speeds you quote are VERY low, for generally hand-held let alone for air-air or ground -air; the exact opposite of MAN777 !
I'm sorry to say your monopod / elastic idea won't work, one has to hand hold & pan far faster than that would allow.
I'm sure the hilltop types would agree - now's the chance for one of them to comment, pretty sure they must have been watching this thread, though like me they generally post on the military aircrew or aviation history sites.
DZ