Predator drone brought down by bird strike... bird attack... war by bird... dogfight

[Skybird]

... or whatever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vyIVu8BtjM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vyIVu8BtjM&feature=related)

:D Serves those damn Amis right! :woot:

[vienna]

Has Iran taken credit yet? Or is this the work of an Al Queda sleeper bird cell? Someone call Homeland Secuity, the TSA, the Audubon Society...someone, anyone...stat!! Terror aleert RED!!! :D

[Sailor Steve]

I'm glad to see the owner/builder/pilot took it with a good sense of humor. :sunny:

[Reece]

I wonder if the owner purchased a gun?:hmmm:

[Oberon]

:haha: Brilliant stuff, what a beautiful bird. Well, they've been up there for a loooot longer than we have. :haha:

[Stealhead]

I would have to guess that same goes for civil aviation I can say for certain from experience that birds cause a lot of damage to military aircraft every year.At most airbase they have various systems in place to try and scare birds away like trained hawks or they will go out and fire blanks to scare flocks away.

I saw a C-17 collide with a huge flock of of swifts or swallows:hmmm: in Germany once must have killed 75 or more and they came right back to check for damage the front end of the plane was covered in bird bits none got ingested by the engines though.Now if that flock had hit a little left or right it might have taken out one or two engines on one side which would be a challenge for any pilot not to crash seeing as the impact was just as the C-17 lifted off.

[Skybird]

Holy cow, is this an RC model, or is it a drone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpctmf7uuk&feature=related

At 5:30+ I thought for a moment I had a deja vu :D

[Skybird]

Never say big when it can get bigger...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FjTcctkC4&feature=related

:o

[Stealhead]

The BUFF laughs at the pansy C-17 (that C-17 looked to be a bit weak on power at take off of maybe the pilot sucks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbITzCI2AU0&feature=related

A really good looking Mi-24.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjTxLTsIHU&feature=related

In theory at least from a military standpoint any vehicle that is not operated by a pilot inside it and performs some function is a drone
some are controlled by a human else where but are still controlled as if inside the vehicle as in a Predator or Reaper others are controlled more like
an RC unit I know that the US Marine have a little drone that is thrown into the air and then fly just like an RC plane.And you also have automated drones


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Eye

http://usafhpa.org/350thSRS/350sea.html

[Sailor Steve]

A contender for the title of largest radio-controlled model ever:
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/bq-7.html

[Osmium Steele]

Iirc, Joe Kennedy Jr. died in one of those, and daddy forced Jack to step up and be the first President Kennedy.

[Oberon]

Iirc, Joe Kennedy Jr. died in one of those, and daddy forced Jack to step up and be the first President Kennedy.

Yup, happened just up the coast from here.

[MH]

Nice boom & zoom.:cool:

[Stealhead]

Iirc, Joe Kennedy Jr. died in one of those, and daddy forced Jack to step up and be the first President Kennedy.


Partly correct he was abroad a BQ-8 a drone version of the B-24.