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Hawk takes out quadcopter drone, reclaims the sky

 
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Oct 10, 2014 16:16 |  #1

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Filmed over Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently, a large hawk gave Amazon a reason to rethink the company’s Prime Air drone delivery initiative. YouTube user and software developer Christopher Schmidt has been taking his Phantom FC40 quadcopter drone out into public areas to fly it around the skies a couple times each week. To capture 1080p video during his weekly flights, Schmidt uses a GoPro Hero 3+ Black attached to his quadcopter drone.

However, a large hawk took offense to the quadcopter drone loudly buzzing in the same airspace. The GoPro camera captured the hawk swooping in from above and slamming into the drone. At this point, Schmidt throttled down the props to avoid doing any serious damage to the hawk and the drone is filmed falling to the ground where it lands upside down on a grassy area of the park.




  
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Oct 11, 2014 00:02 as a reply to  @ post 17206078 |  #2

Im glad that he did what he could to not injure the hawk. thumbs up


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Oct 11, 2014 00:08 |  #3

Looks like an Owl to be but I'm not an expert


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Oct 11, 2014 04:02 |  #4

Lots of birds attack drones videos on youtube.

Here the guy even flies his drone just over a nest. Last frames suggest the osprey has a broken leg.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=WvqD7wxC3uc (external link)




  
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Oct 11, 2014 11:11 |  #5
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Refill wrote in post #17206626 (external link)
Lots of birds attack drones videos on youtube.

Here the guy even flies his drone just over a nest. Last frames suggest the osprey has a broken leg.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=WvqD7wxC3uc (external link)

and that exactly why all these drones and their idiot pilots need to go.


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Oct 11, 2014 21:21 |  #6

Talley wrote in post #17206446 (external link)
Looks like an Owl to be but I'm not an expert

That is a Red-tailed Hawk.


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Oct 11, 2014 21:24 |  #7

Refill wrote in post #17206626 (external link)
Lots of birds attack drones videos on youtube.

Here the guy even flies his drone just over a nest. Last frames suggest the osprey has a broken leg.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=WvqD7wxC3uc (external link)

While I am not sure you are right, I agree it doesn't look right....

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and that exactly why all these drones and their idiot pilots need to go.

So true.


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Oct 12, 2014 13:15 |  #8

Refill wrote in post #17206626 (external link)
Lots of birds attack drones videos on youtube.
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I guess they think it's another bird, albeit funny looking




  
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