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A large raptor attacks my remote controlled eagle. I barely get away by making quick dives until some crows come to my rescue!

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  • Soxiam staff 2 years ago
    so so amazing.
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  • carlosdotdanger staff 2 years ago
    wow, thanks for that
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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    Thats some fancy flying. But in all seriousness you should have just used your missiles and wasted the sucker.

    Next time.
  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    All's fair in love and war my friends... kill or be killed.

    yes, it was a joke.
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 2 years ago
    Mother nature doesn't like competition.
  • Maarten Toner pro 2 years ago
    Hmm... is it me or did vimeo decide to just hire the first four people who commented on this video?
  • Daniel Hayek staff 2 years ago
    Ha ha, nope. When we find awesome videos we share them with one another hence the pattern.
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  • King Learie 2 years ago
    If I was a bird, I would take exception to a petrolium fuelled birdy smelling and noising in my hunting ground.
    But what a lucky video capture. Today, everytime I put the camera away the wildlife went nuts so I get it out, they become boring again! Doh! Don't they know I'm a busy human!King!
  • Jeremy Blencowe 2 years ago
    It's electric actually. Not smelly, clean. And relatively quiet. :)
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  • Todd Wellington 2 years ago
    What camera did you use? that's awesome btw
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  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    @ King Learie:Nope, all electric!
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  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    This is taken with the VadoHD, thanks for all the compliments. I have a video of the RC eagle from the ground as well called 56" eagle flight.
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  • Thomas Lew plus 2 years ago
    I can't believe you got such a thing like this on video!
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  • Xyc0 2 years ago
    Shoooooot haaaaeerrr!
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  • Matthew Brown (Matty Brown) plus 2 years ago
    SO SO SO SO cool. I always love watching the crows chase off eagles, but this is so much more cool to watch!!
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  • Mattia Santino Merli plus 2 years ago
    Simply UNBELIEVABLE!! You can sell this footage to Discovery or something else!! thanks for sharing this with us!!
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  • Charles Huettner 2 years ago
    crows rule
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  • Adam 2 years ago
    Looks like an angry mommy eagle..:-)
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  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    @ Adam: It's my understanding that bald eagles don't get their yellow beaks and white feathers until they are 4 years old, so I'm pretty sure this is a juvenile bald eagle!
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  • Spencer Kuhnsman 2 years ago
    hahahahahaha! that was great1
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  • Speldosa plus 2 years ago
    Did I miss something here? So crows are the natural enemies of raptors? :D
  • Lucas Groves 2 years ago
    yes, i find that fascinating too. but incredibly, we have to sift through a series of brainless exchanges about whether certain posts were intended as jokes. ughh.
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  • reivilo38 2 years ago
    wow ! this is dogfight !
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  • Mr.Cantos plus 2 years ago
    wow!
    i thought it was gonna be a joke!
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  • Kevin Dermody plus 2 years ago
    this is epic!
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  • Alex Tang 2 years ago
    That's awesome. Though, for the sake of science, if this happens again, you should let the eagle take yours out so we can get good video evidence. :)

    Nice job all around.
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  • Dieter Walz plus 2 years ago
    absolutely great! :-)
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  • brewcaster plus 2 years ago
    This made my fucking day. Man vs. Nature, GO!
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  • Brennan L. 2 years ago
    Dang, I was expecting a velocoraptor to jump in from out of nowhere...

    Maybe I've been watching too much Jurassic Park...

    Mad props, anyway.
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  • Owl Medicine 2 years ago
    silly wabbit.....raptors don't like remote control!
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  • Jeff 2 years ago
    Cool how you froze that bug midair in the last frame.
    That would be a scary bird to have attacking your plane......could rip it to shreds!
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  • Ryan Sheehy plus 2 years ago
    aha loved it
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  • Duncan Birnie 2 years ago
    Ha ha, awesome. I like the way the crows tried to save your plane, shows they like tech as much as us humans. :p
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  • Eric Thoolen 2 years ago
    Wow that was so cool!
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  • crazed mule 2 years ago
    Go, little buddy, GO! If you freeze frame at :22 and :33, you can see the head clearly. Fantastic quality for such a little cam. Did you have to do any motion stabilization to the video?
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    Nope, it's a great little camera. Just need to make sure my propeller is balanced.
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  • Robert-Jon Eckhardt 2 years ago
    Wow I can't believe it. Insane!! :D
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  • Naked Nils 2 years ago
    AWESOME! :o
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  • AlphaBee6 2 years ago
    That was pretty damn cool! Must have been interesting pitching your wits against a born hunter. :-)
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  • Chad Miller pro 2 years ago
    great video!
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  • ADW plus 2 years ago
    Super cool video.

    Bald Eagles regularly take gulls, so it might have thought your plane was lunch!

    Would have been a bit crunchy though.
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  • Will Dailey 2 years ago
    amazing
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  • Brandt Bethune 2 years ago
    pretty awesome.

    Although it would have been catastrophic for it to happen, the video would have been pretty epic had the eagle attacked and you had the video of the grand tailspin to the ground.
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  • Luke McDonough 2 years ago
    So good
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  • Lloyd Allison-Young 2 years ago
    Epic.
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  • Kasper Berthelsen 2 years ago
    wow. thats pretty awesome!
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  • Deadpixl 2 years ago
    Oh wow, that was pretty epic.
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  • rebecca 2 years ago
    that was pretty cool!!!!!

    :D
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  • Jim Taylor pro 2 years ago
    You should run stabilization on it and post that version or make it available for download so someone else could. Great video!
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  • Simon Donaldson 2 years ago
    awesome awesomeness
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  • Kamil Fatsa 2 years ago
    ehe ehe :=) perfect. hawk ???
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    I'm pretty sure it's a juvenile bald eagle, they don't get their white feather until they are 4 years old.
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  • Geraldo Carvalho Jr 2 years ago
    Hi my friend !
    Wich kind of camera were you using to record this video ? Could you tell me please, the model ?
    Tanks...
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    I am using a VadoHD
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  • Mena 2 years ago
    Cool&great video.
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  • ☣Christian Morales ™ ✌ 2 years ago
    EPIC you should put some action music in it
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  • psymike 2 years ago
    Nice!! The question remains why the other bird protected the plane...
  • Bob Willis pro 2 years ago
    I imagine the crow was protecting it's territory and nesting site from a predator rather than caring about the model plane.
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    I've actually seen crows attacking Bald Eagles a number of times this summer (always in groups). I find it interesting that they don't care about my model eagle, but the real eagle came after me.
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  • tuhawka 2 years ago
    jaja.Is incredible! be coincidence!
    greetings!!

    byes
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  • R Stewart 2 years ago
    That was cool, your "bird" getting hunted.
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  • Robert Owen 2 years ago
    Very Cool!
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  • Benjamin Ringoir 2 years ago
    really really cool video dude !!! keep them comming
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  • wideEyedPupil 2 years ago
    @0:33 two flashes of a string/rope like object in sky behind flight path?!

    Poor playback on Dual G5 Mac so can't make it out.
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    That's my antenna.
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  • Leonard Ray Khan 2 years ago
    i must say that was a really cool vid.. not something we see everyday.
    Watching the Raptor come in was really cool
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  • amankerstudio plus 2 years ago
    great..creative video...:)
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  • Brian The Great 2 years ago
    whoa!!! cool!!!
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  • VJIX Creative plus 2 years ago
    Awesome! The ending make me chuckle *thump* :)
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  • Michiel Pruijssers 2 years ago
    This made my day...watched it a couple of times. The ending makes me smile too as it is so abrupt. Very nice vid!
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  • William Bridge 2 years ago
    GOD ! That's so amazing and scary kkk!

    Amazing shot
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  • Dave 2 years ago
    That was really something. Those birds are amazing, good capture..
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  • CJ Dugan 2 years ago
    Nice flying! Those talons were not to be messed with.
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  • Shawn Huber 2 years ago
    you should attach a door peep hole to the camera to make it a fisheye
  • Trevor Sayre 2 years ago
    It would weight too much
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  • Smashn Time 2 years ago
    Hey! Epic duel, I'm so impressed that I posted it on My blog. If you want me to remove it mail me at smash550 at gmail.com. blog- smahsn.blogspot.com
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    No problem, but you misspelled your blog name in the link.
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  • Smashn Time 2 years ago
    Thanks and sorry for the misspell its here - smashn.blogspot.com/ - scroll down for your video

    :D
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  • Grind Universe 2 years ago
    Now imagine if Michael Bay see this video, which can happen in the sequence of transformers ...
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    Please....no.
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  • Ron Horn 2 years ago
    Now THAT'S how to clear your six!

    RC: 1
    Raptor: 0
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  • Abdallah Aberouch 2 years ago
    "Eagle 1, Eagle 1, Raptor on your six!!!
    Eject!!!!!"
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  • Berge Gazen 2 years ago
    That was so fucking cool.
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  • keeno 2 years ago
    wow, that's hardcore! Is the eagle just hanging around the area, or did you entice him out with a bit of rabbit hanging off the back of your plane?
  • Billwhit 2 years ago
    I think he has a nest in the area, they protect their hunting grounds.
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  • Steve Richer 2 years ago
    Fantastic!!
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  • marvin 1 year ago
    Wow! That's some good acro vs. a bird.

    I featured this on youlikeairplanestoo.com
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