Magpie Glider - Slope Soaring Alula Attack
Lost the battle on this day. Reckon painting feathers on my Alula might not have worked in my favour. Another 5 knots may have turn the story ... or not.
This Grassy Knoll is one of the three sites I fly down at Hallett Cove, South Australia. Works on a light WNW to SW. It is a public space so it suits the gentler flyers on quieter days.
Here's a link to the televised version
• Birds gang attack Alul...
My favourite slope of the three is The Boardwalks to the north of the popular North slope. Works on a NW to WSW. Link to my first flight there on an early morning exploration.
• Slope Soaring a DIY wi...
If you are looking to learn to fly check out the Southern Flying League. www.southernsoaringleague.club/
Clip Features the Wonderful Music from "The Fountain" by Clint Mansell
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Definitely good flying I wouldn't be surprised if the birds are actually playing with you at the same time
The old WW2 Luftwaffe comment with the birds lined up had me dieing...😂
@crosisofborg5524
3 жыл бұрын
For gods sake it’s spelled dying.
Your ability to slope soar is amazing.
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Too nice. Thanks. Made my day
Venturing into their territory wearing their colours. That is bold.
Excellent production. Really funny. We need more like this!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers DG!!!
The soundtrack had me pumped, and the visuals kept me engaged. Great job.
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Too nice. Thanks John
That was some Ace flying skills took 4 of those Magpies to bring you down, plus took some time, specially just being a glider, thanks, really enjoyed 😁
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Robert. A whole lot of fun and memories on this day
This is a classic! And he didn't land the plane, but kept taunting the little defenders! Brilliant!
I was absolutely ABSORBED by the conflict footage! WELL DONE!!!
There should be a "LOVE THIS VIDEO" button on KZread!!!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@adlapl
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah :) !
Oh that was so funny even without the soundtrack. I have to admire your sense of humour, but what a pain when you are trying to enjoy yourself. Thank you
@trevorwright6058
5 жыл бұрын
Julian - thanks for the feedback. It was fun to be chased initially until the the beek and claw damage began to add up. All the best
@101stuey
4 жыл бұрын
@@trevorwright6058 You can't really grumble when they get a couple of digs in, you're on their patch.
Amazing flying and the added sounds, the text was outstanding!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
I had more chance at escaping the claws a couple of days later Bill. A bit more wind though not directly on shore. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hWmZy86Tn8qqZ7Q.html
@mygt8a4re
4 жыл бұрын
@@trevorwright6058 awesome vids!
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while
Maggies are my favourite birds. Smart. Excellent aviators.
@bipolatelly9806
3 жыл бұрын
@Electric Puha Nope.
@bipolatelly9806
3 жыл бұрын
@Electric Puha Nope.... Teach kids to deal with it. Parents are so pathetic these daze....
@bipolatelly9806
3 жыл бұрын
@Electric Puha Yeah. And to wear a hat.
Nice flying skills. Good interaction with the birds
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jon
Hilarious. Battle of Britain revisited.. Love watching aerial battles between magpies. Such agile fliers, but you were mostly equal to the task. Well done!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Allan
The maneuver is so good, you can quickly evade the attack of 4 bandits👍
Stellar flying. Out maneuvering a living creature that's designed to hunt in the air with a glider is pretty impressive. I know the glider has a bit of an advantage as far as density vs active surface goes, and there's the matter of the third person view, but still, with a glider, bravo. I think the answer is to make it bigger and scarier looking. Maybe so it looks like a predator of theirs, if they have any.
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
The magpies are pretty much is the wolves of the sky around these parts. They will take on whatever sneaks into their patch. I have an eagle look a like glider that has a 1500mm wing span - Guaranteed that they will peck the crap out of it. (Can't wait)
Best You Tube video I've seen in ages, post more please.
@trevorwright6058
Ай бұрын
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Great job on the soundtrack, I love it!
That was amazing!!!! I love the music and sound that went with this.....nice job!
AWESOME video with some great flying. How fun to be playing with the birds. Nice paint job too
@trevorwright6058
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob. All the best!
Thoroly enjoyable, thank you very much. Perusing the comments, you seem to have a winner. Good show.
The whole squadron was out to get you. Good evasive tactics!
Simply astounding flying. And a GLIDER no less! Brilliant - thanks.
That is so entertaining and hilarious, to see how hard those birds were trying to get your plane but getting out maneuvered.
OMG that was insane!! Looks like a heck of a lot of fun. The last time I slope soared was 2001....I really miss it.
Love the music awesome video 😎
One of the most intriguing things I've seen, much more interesting than fooling a fish into striking. Thanks for the upload.
Even if we had seen this before. “BIRD FIGHTING” would never had caught on ! The sound was fun.
Very nice flight Trevor. Those black and white bandits make flying "interesting". First time I've seen bits coming off a sloper under attack though. Great fun to watch.
Love the soundtrack . So awesome 👏
Ha ha, so great to capture this on film - it's like they're thinking - okay, up close and personal, this is not a living thing but, whatever you are, you're going down!!!! SO territorial. Great flying to stay in the air with 3 or 4 of these air-masters gunning for you!!! Great to watch! Thanks for posting! Johnny :-) :-) :-)
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Such a great comment Johnny. Bless ya mate!
The is the most fun "VIDEO GAME" I have seen in a long time. Keep playing, you'll get better at this. lol
Отличное видео!
This was awesome!
Brilliant edition!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Luiz!
- was a time this would have been called a 'dogfight'. Great flying by the way!
Love the backing news reel....The luftwaffe lol
Wow! Great work all around. Love the video, the flying, the model, and the music mix.
@trevorwright6058
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much. Great feedback!
Loved every second of that vid. Very well put together.
Excellent flying and hilarious video!
Great job all round. Looks like a fun spot to fly.
Wow! I really enjoyed watching this. Superb flying and good soundtrack
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Great feedback Chris. Hope to get a few more vids out soon. Got more time now for all kinds of projects
Funny as hell. Flying in their territory sure does ruffle their feathers. literally. lol
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
They are super mean to the cyclists around here when spring is in the air. Funny to watch.
Trevor you are an Ace Legend
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Too nice!!! Thanks
Love the sound effects!!!!
That’s some really impressive flying skills to out manoeuvre magpies . These birds are the nasties of the skies and attack with ferocity to any territory invader .
@bushranger51
3 жыл бұрын
Usually maggies only protect their territory in breeding season, but I suppose they perceived a threat with the glider, and decided to attack the unknown intruder. One tactic I'd have used would be to dive straight for the ground, pull up at the last second, and hopefully the maggies would all strike the ground before they realized their mistake. Painful for the birds, but a valuble lesson as well. Magpies aren't as bad as ravens. Ravens have a bully attitude and will terrorize any other bird in their territory, but unfortunately they perceive the whole sky as their territory.
brilliant flying and epic sound track!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Too nice. Thanks James.
Excellent flying and video! Exciting! (I'm going to change my diaper now... well...nurse is.)
You will fly again ,very well done ! 5 to one !
Some excellent dog (bird) fighting from both parties!!!!!!
Awesome, what a great video!
That was thoroughly entertaining to watch!
Nice flying and filming.
great vid and great flying!I wish I could get my Alua trimmed out that nice.
THREAT ELIMINATED! Excellent post.
Makes me smile in the morning
Filmagem sensacional! Parabéns!
Quite amusing and entertaining, thank you for sharing.
Excellent vid. 👍
Excellent flying.
Awesome video mate! Great manoeuvres and tactical avoidance up there!😅
Great flying, real seat of the pants stuff. I was flying my glider from the car park below the Vlaming Head Lighthhouse up at Exmouth one afternoon when a Sea Eagle took an interest in my model and quickly set itself up to dive in for the kill. From my experience flying thermal gliders I have found magpies cannot loop so when the eagle dived in I put the nose down and when it got really close I pulled a loop which made it overshoot the attack but it was soon on my tail again. This time without the airspeed for a loop I stalled it and spun down to the car park for a hasty landing. The eagle hung around for awhile before sliding off along the ridge into the setting sun.
@trevorwright6058
6 жыл бұрын
Great telling! The chase can be either a whole lot of fun or a tail between the legs situation if contact is made. Thanks for posting!
I know I'm late to the party but that was fun to watch.
@trevorwright6058
Ай бұрын
I have been late to the slopes of late. The covid crap messed with my habits and found other ones to fill the space. Charging batteries now though
Amazing video!!
Great flying!
This was nicely done
That was fantastic!
Thanks for sharing. Great audio too
Great flying! And great filming, too, I must say! :-)
That was awesome!
Great vid man. Love the Maggies
Okay, thumbs up , That was cool. Nice video.
Great video indeed :) Beautiful location.
Hahaha this was so fun to watch, love the background music hahaha
Hi mate , that was so cool to watch my favorite birds giving chase. I bet you had a great time doing battle.
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Couldn't stop grinning - but then I started counting the beak dents - not so good after all. All the best Stephen
It all looked so graceful in the beginning. Then all of a sudden. Lol. But it was still well cool. I need to see some more of this kind of stuff. I've subscribed. 👍
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent Dave. Not too big a leap to get out there and into slope soaring. Give it a go. Usually a session of slope soaring is my therapy - not on this day. lol
@davescopes249
4 жыл бұрын
@@trevorwright6058 I just noticed I typed greatfull instead of graceful. Lol. Edited now. Yeah them magpies went crazy. Lol. I'm in the UK but I'm sure I can find some cliffs to fly off of. Got the white cliffs of Dover. That might work. And also Dover is very very hilly. Anyway thanks for replying and cheers for sharing your video. Happy flying ✈️🛩️🛫🛬🚁👍
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
@@davescopes249 - Uk has some excellent slope soaring gatherings - fabulous coast line (in summer hee hee) Check out this fella from our mother country. He has some great gliders kzread.info/dash/bejne/X51l1bGFcZbSpKg.html
Nice to watch and nice glider by the way.
Awesome flying skills. Keith
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Nice Keith. Thanks
This is incredible. 😂 Nice flying!
Nice one! Love it!
Fun to watch. Those magpies really go off the brain and wont quit till they have won.
This is an amazing video man!I have a lot of fun watching it,keep it up!
@trevorwright6058
6 жыл бұрын
Kind words - thank you.
BEAUTIFUL!
Excellent video. I especially liked the machine gun fire and the air raid sirens. I've seen raven here in Arizona attack gliders in our parks. Very good fliers and very territorial. I had some good laughs watching your video. Thanks a lot!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Gary - thanks for the cool feedback
I'm an RC'r.... OK next move, build and install a mini 9v battery/capacitor circuit setup ie .1000v @ micro amps blast potential - do the math. Rig up with wing tips and tail tips - 4" long bare microwire emitters. Stay at altitude and fly with some speed while slow rocking your wings to draw them in. Pow! Snap! Knack! on their little beaks or feet. It would be interesting and fun to play around with that set up to see if a little operant conditioning would be effective. Much like the Battle of Britian, you may just get what's left of the Luftwaffe to turn tail and run ending Operation Sea Wolf, or in your case Operation Chimney Stack; and thus winning and securing your home field back! And make sure you film it too!
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Love it. Weapon up and own the skys. Creative. thanks for posting Pops
Great video , thanks
Interesting and funny.I enjoyed every second of it.
Nice Evasion flight!!
nice flying skills you had some fun.
beautiful video!!!
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Too nice. Thanks
amazing flying skill
That is a nice flying glider and great flying skills !
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Lee
Very cool vid, best one I've seen in a long while
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike. I'm looking to try some raw meat on the cockpit for a sequal = lol
Superb aerial skills on your part my friend. Kudos to you.
@trevorwright6058
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jettz. Smoke and mirrors actually. I'm in a panic with nowhere to go and not wanting any beak dents in my precious!
Great video, that's just brilliant!
@trevorwright6058
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks JB.
Outstanding video! I've never wanted a glider before, but I sure as heck do now! That was more entertaining than the swallows that chase my e-foam board planes :)
Cool video good job.
Fun being the "Stuka" here Trevor ! Excellent - gives the Magpies some excercise !
@trevorwright6058
3 жыл бұрын
Nice.