Guys, I am not talking about another plane mid air crash.
I am talking about a big feathered bird that decided to strike my plane right out of the air!!!
Here's what happened.
Just 1 hr ago I decide to fly my foamie spit. 1st batt no hitch. No birds too. Weather was great for early afternoon. greycast clouds, not windy. Perfect for flying planes right?? So plug in 2nd batt and launch lah!
Suddenly, this bird appeared. I knew it was an eagle as it glided mostly without flapping. Nice bird, I thought. Quite Big, I thought. Continued flying did a loop and noticed that this bird was following my plane. I decided to steer clear of it and manage to keep my distance for a few more seconds. I had to turn again at some point so just after I leveled off I thought I had space to fly past this bird despite the bird having the same altitude.
How wrong I was!! It happenned so quickly. The bird turned out to be WAAYYY BIGGER. It zeroed on my spit and 'clawed/smashed' my plane in mid-air. At point of impact, the eagle's wing span is about twice the span of my spit!!!
Then I thought it wanted my plane for lunch as it went down in pieces. Guess what?! It BOCHAP my plane a just flew away. I think it didn't even gave it a second glance.
Am I lucky or what?? What do you think?
ps. will post pics of spit's remains later...
I am talking about a big feathered bird that decided to strike my plane right out of the air!!!
Here's what happened.
Just 1 hr ago I decide to fly my foamie spit. 1st batt no hitch. No birds too. Weather was great for early afternoon. greycast clouds, not windy. Perfect for flying planes right?? So plug in 2nd batt and launch lah!
Suddenly, this bird appeared. I knew it was an eagle as it glided mostly without flapping. Nice bird, I thought. Quite Big, I thought. Continued flying did a loop and noticed that this bird was following my plane. I decided to steer clear of it and manage to keep my distance for a few more seconds. I had to turn again at some point so just after I leveled off I thought I had space to fly past this bird despite the bird having the same altitude.
How wrong I was!! It happenned so quickly. The bird turned out to be WAAYYY BIGGER. It zeroed on my spit and 'clawed/smashed' my plane in mid-air. At point of impact, the eagle's wing span is about twice the span of my spit!!!
Then I thought it wanted my plane for lunch as it went down in pieces. Guess what?! It BOCHAP my plane a just flew away. I think it didn't even gave it a second glance.
Am I lucky or what?? What do you think?
ps. will post pics of spit's remains later...
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