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I was out flying my Extreme Flight Edge this morning, and doing some nice rolling circles about 50-100 feet up, when POOF!!! my plane stops dead in the sky. A large bird of some sorts, Hawk, crow etc... flew right into the prop!
I was so stunned, I just sat there watching as my plane went in... I pulled on the stick about 25' up and still had control, and somehow brought the thing in for a deadstick landing. No dammage to the plane besides the prop (AMAZING!) The bird smacked into the prop directly! Now I have yet another thing to be paranoid about hiting besides the Ground!
I didn't find the bird, just some feathers stuck into the covering of my plane was all that was left. WEIRD DAY!

Watch out for those crazy birds!

Nanuk

Probably wasn't much left of the bird to find.
He most likely don't have the guts to try that again.(the bird that is)

Nanuk

antslake

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It must have been mating season.

Fly-guy

We have our own little clan of crazy birds at our club. Every August-September they nest right next to the runway. I had to laugh one time, one of my mates has a WM Miss america Mustang with a .61 and a tuned pipe which absolutlye hooned. One day he deadsticked it and bellied her in a good 50ft fromt the runway right where the birds were nesting. He had to get the plane I found it rather amusing because the whole time before he got there the birds were swooping at his plane.

Least your incident wasnt too abd, I ve seen a writeoff from a birdstrike.

Fly-guy

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I fly glow and electric, and now everytime I fly my electrics some sparrows at the feild start chaseing me, so I go back at them, and by the end of the flight it is 6 on 1.

kwmtrubrit

I had a flock (20-25) of swallows going crazy around my Gentle Lady Sailplane. I was about 150-200ft in a stiff wind 10-12mph. Not much ground speed into wind, but when I "turned tail" that changed. The birds would send an escort as I left their domain, but when I went back all hell broke loose. Not one hole in the plane though.

norcalflyer530

birds are bad... let me tell you dont chase them i had a super sportster once and i was flying sorta formation with some geese and all of a sudden i lost contact i found out that i was so far away with my plane so anyways long story short it smashed into a million pieces.. my fault

britbrat

We have a young bald eagle that is currently inhabiting our airspace, but he/she doesn't chase the models -- we are just concerned about the possibility of a mid-air.

Muza

We have a bunch of magpies (nasty plane chasing bird in Aust) nesting about 20 metres from the runway, in line with the threshold.

I witnessed a plyon racer chase one of the older ones, next thing the whole nest is in the air. He couldn't land because the birds went ballistic when he tried. Other planes where scrambled [>:] and went full throttle OVER the area. Due to location, we have no noise limit, so these aircraft where the noisyest we could get. Scared the birds, and all returned to the nest.

The plyon racer learnt his lesson, and took us to the pub to say thanks.

Spaceclam

we at our field have some redtail hawks that like to play around in the thermals on the side of the cliff that our flying field is located on. sometimes they get in the way of our landing pattern, and sometimes they even engage us in air to air combat. i used to have an old vmar cap 232 (which i did not care about in the least, i really hated that plane) but i had a big unmuffled fourstroke swinging a 16x6 prop so whenever air to air combat broke out, i would simply head for the bird at WOT and they would scramble every time. never had a strike though because birds, along with other small animals seem to be scared of loud unmufled fourstroke engines screaming tward you at full throttle. come to think of it, i would be too. during the summer months, everybody brings up one plane they like, and one plane they would be willing to sacrifice to break up air-air combat