Most of my planes are white on top, a couple of them are red.
I have shared thermals with Hawks, Vultures, Seagulls, and once even a
Duck. Hawks seem the most compatible. Occasionally they will screech and
complain and bully you into leaving "their territory".
Once I was in a thermal with a H
The only plane I have had attacked in the air was the Infamous Flamingoid,
which is pink. I was doing a half hour thermal flight, and a couple of
buzzards, of all things, took offense at the presence of a Flamingoid in
their air and made repeated swoops at it. I did loops and stalls, and they
e
I fly with bald eagles on a near daily basis. If you are ahead and below
them, they will occasionally come over and look at you. If you are above or
behind them, they will evade and fly further on down the beach. I've only
been attacked once, by an immature eagle. He took a claw sized chunk out
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> Someone recently sent me a video clip of Zagis being harassed by a hawk.
One
> Zagi was white on the top surface and red on the underside, the other
Someone recently sent me a video clip of Zagis being harassed by a hawk. One
Zagi was white on the top surface and red on the underside, the other was
red. The hawk wouldn't leave the planes alone until they were on the ground.
Zagis are pretty maneuverable but the hawk could run rings around them
At 05:29 PM 10/8/2004, Brent Hoover wrote:
While out flying yesterday, I got to wondering about the times we have heard
of a bird attacking an airplane. I do not remember if any mention was made
of the planes colors. Anybody out there with info in this??
I had a Monarch 2m, white with yellow and
All my sailplanes that have been attacked were yellow.
Years ago, a Hawk attacked my yellow Olympic II and
shredded the Monokote on the top of both wings.
Buddy Roos
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Few years ago, I launched my 1/7.5 scale ASK13 into a gaggle of kites.
There must have been well over a dozen of them circling in a same thermal.
Couple of the birds made few aggressive moves toward my plane, attacking
it, but wiggling my wings turned them away. The plane had white top,
A few years back, I was flying my LB2 hand launch and got in with a couple
of hawks. I made an aggressive move on them and one of them had a bowel
movement on my wing. Does that count ???
The wing was yellow, then turned yellow and ...
The only attack I have had was on a all red sailplane.
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