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Old 03-08-2010 | 12:53 PM
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Default RE: HOW TO PREVENT BIRD SHOT DOWNS?

Wow so I'm not the only person to have this happen to about two years ago a Red Tailed Hawk attacked my Parkzone P-51 as I was flying the damn bird came from no where! It drug its talons across my wing at the start or the alieron on the left wing I thought after that the bird would leave my plane alone and that I would be able to save it but I sure as hell was wrong after our mid air I tried to roll the plane away to the right but he came right around and I pulled sharply back on the elevator to avoid hitting the bird head on and my plane just couldnt take the stress on the weakened area and lost the left tip and alieron but not completly it was dangling by the servo lead and that caused some horrible drag and the plane was completly lost at that point there was nothing for me to do so I just let it impact psh as if that wouldnt have hapened even if I tried to save it but this all happened so fast like within 20 or 30 seconds I didnt know what to do