I was flying my Excelleron 90 one day when I heard a Whomp noise.. and a few seconds later, a seagull was flying about 50 - 100 feet away. I didn't make anything of it until I landed and noticed that my tail wheel was gone, and in it's place was a single feather stuck into the balsa. When I was walking back to the flight line with my plane, there was my tail wheel assembly sitting on the ground about 50 feet from where I had landed.

I had some 5 minute epoxy with me so I glued it back on and went back up.

I never actually saw the seagull hit the plane.. or the plane hit the seagull, but I heard the noise. I guess I was so focused on the plane that I didn't see what was going on around it. Odd but true.

CGr.