Drone attacked by a HAWK!!! - Interesting FPV drone moments over the years

[@EdRickerVlogs]

What are some of your most memorable or interesting FPV moments? Share your story or a link to the footage below!

[@astro.sergiu]

Hi Ed Awesome video! Bread to be on the channel since the early days I think it would be fun if you do a compilation of the audiences stories with video as well I was flying the first drone I build last summer and had a failsafe happen even though video was perfectly fine (usually video chops out first). I saw seeing the drone dive down towards the sea frenticaly trying to arm mid air with no luck. It landed about a foot away from the sea. Then a wave rolled over it 😅 Also in the same clip a seagull flies right at the drone and narrowly avoids it in the last second.

[@astro.sergiu]

Forgot to add the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pniYm3qjbNKfrc0

[@EdRickerVlogs]

@@astro.sergiu That's pretty nuts! It sounded like it tried to throttle up right before it hit the ground.

[@andrewheitmann1796]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5mmgYWjZbh9laM Had a pretty similar situation lmao

[@BOTGRINDER]

chasing the skyline was a pretty good memory

[@brainmind4070]

Hawk: "If it flies, it dies"

[@Panos__1904]

The capture with the claws is impeccable ! 😄 Nice one. Loved when you shouted to the hawk from a distance 😋

[@bwasfpv]

the most memorable to me was when a police approach me to stop me from flying

[@JoshuaTimothy]

Thanks for sticking around all these years. You definitely inspired me in my early drone years. I have almost reached my 2 year as licensed Part 107 pilot.

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Awesome, and thank you as well! Congrats

[@JakeSloan]

Some day I hope we can fly FPV together. Maybe when you come to Alaska... My favorite FPV footage I've shot so far was flying through some of the glacier ice caves here

[@petersparkie]

Every time you FPV you bring a smile to my face. In my late 60s I struggle with my M2P in “T” mode haha, let alone what you do Ed. Thanks for another great vid.

[@zerox187]

1:32 The little bird's reaction to your scream is hilarious

[@maleatl]

The yell did it for me😂😂

[@chemicalburn]

1:34 looks like that mockingbird was adding some stress to the situation which may have helped drive the hawk away. They hate hawks and you can see it dive after the hawk.

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Yes, it definitely looked like it was on my side!

[@MindRiderFPV]

The Hawk part was amazing. Got my CineBee stuck in a high tree once, started throwing a 3s/450 and eventually got it down with a bullseye.

[@FrancesScottFurryandFree]

Hey! You’re in Raleigh! I lived there fir a long time, & Charlotte before that!

[@patrickwalsh2086]

Well shiver me tail-feathers! What a fight between machine and avian adversary!

[@808-Stat3]

INSANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@IaninLondon]

Hey Ed! Outstanding footage of his claws! Glad the fpv lived to fly another day! Cheers, Ian in London 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Crazydaytripper]

For the google street view how long did it take where u filmed the car to when u saw it on google street view?

[@thisisspartan5953]

Nice shot at the basketball hub... BUT... next time trying with the net on it... 😁🤗😉😋😋😋👍

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

5:40 - what's that green thing flying ?

[@EdRickerVlogs]

I believe it's the Ritewing Spec V3

[@crlguitar1]

I marvel at the skills you must possess to fly at high speeds like that and maneuver the way that you do. Crashes and loss of your toys must get expensive sometimes. I'm just a 'baby' flier with a Mavic Mini camera drone. That's about all I can handle so far!

[@DroneViewsMedia]

Nothing worse than birds attacking drones, but we have to remember; we are only guests in their territory

[@Matanumi]

No one owns the skies.... Not even the birds

[@2011Doomsday]

@@Matanumi I own the skies, you wanna know why I'm crow man.

[@pickles23401]

Dang I've been subbed for over 3 YEARS??? Time flys... literally

[@theshazman]

Hey man, where abouts in NC are you? I cant find anyone to fly with around here haha.

[@robertwhitemoto]

Sent my Mavic Pro up minutes before a storm, judging time by the rain. Well the gail force winds got there first DOH. It was the last I saw of it. (yep I'm an idiot).

[@EspenJohan]

Hey Ed, great video👍. Can you recommend a good starting FPV drone for a beginner, maybe a digital one where i can mount my osmo action on it. Greeting from a subscriber from Norway.

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

This video has some of the most amazing aerial footage I've ever seen

[@flywrightdrones]

Great video Ed, loved your music especially.

[@pdtech4524]

Great montage, enjoyed watching those clips! That hawk 🐥 definitely wanted your quad and wasn't going to let go until you gave it a little 'friendly nip', 😯😁😎👍

[@typeOhh]

Great video pal. Fresh content as always ;)

[@nicktonge7604]

Great flying! Did you make your own drone up?

[@miyahollands6136]

Hi Ed. That was very cool, its always good to show how it went wrong, so we can work out how we can do it right next time - making sure we don't take our friends heads off on the process!

[@BillyBobThornt0n]

Hey man I live in Eastern NC, I have a iFlight Bumblebee 4s cinewhoop, could I pay you to set up my tarranis x7 and the ports? I have added the crossfire controller module, and I did something and can’t get Rssi on my osd, I’ve tried everything, even had my controller with voice commands, then all of a sudden i clicked one wrong thing and it was gone.

[@ChristinaMaterna]

That's amazing... And yes I had to follow the FPV

[@sherrysherokee1634]

Hi ed . Just stopping in . Enjoyed this . Hawk that yell ,😅.. lol . I don't fly a drone. But very interesting as always.

[@trollfpv3254]

Hey Ed. Im interested in learning how to fly drones. My plan is to get my commercial license so I can use them in Land Surveying jobs. Can you suggest any drones for bigginers that are affordable and would most likely be used in my field? Thank you!

[@Aerosnapper]

Great video - kudos for 'fessing up to all these excitements !

[@AlienDrones]

Thanks for these, interesting and funny stuff! Good Flying!

[@mirandadecker7073]

At 1:33 was that a mockingbird that screamed back

[@LittleMissRollerCoaster]

This video is damn epic that it should be in your FPV epic moments when it reaches 10mil views!

[@chrishope82666]

Great video Ed. Just learning fpv to go with my gps. Very fun video.

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Thanks Chris, good luck to you!

[@JennaCee]

Makes me wonder if we need a good 40 ft stick with grippers on it just for those times when.......

[@chemicalburn]

Attach a light string to a dense object (baseball) and throw over the tree branch. Then attach a heavy rope to the light string and pull the rope up over the tree branch. From that point you can violently shake the rope to get the drone down. If that fails attach a chain to the rope, pull that up, and attach chain to a truck to pull it down.

[@JennaCee]

Chemical Burn I suppose any FPV Pilot should have a chainsaw in the truck lol

[@RCtime]

Nice compilation :)

[@HarjitSingh-kt3eu]

My quad was crashed last day 😔, I will plan again with some improvement 🤟 and will touch sky again. Happy fly 👍

[@JOEBlalock23]

Nice video Ed, had many close calls with hawk, but nothing like that.

[@stephenriley801]

Ok if have something in the air we are in their territory, but what about when they attack us just walking around?

[@johnk8825]

Fun to watch, especially when it's not you. Really liked the hawk school custodian

[@skyrotfpv]

Nice collection!! ✌

[@ShelbyVoll]

Great video brother....and I have more stories then I could type on here. Maybe do a video of us chatting about FPV stories. See you later this week.

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Sounds like a plan!

[@ORGANIZEDCoNfUsioN]

WOW, how cool was that!!!!

[@KhawajaRizwanArshadDadyalAK]

Nice Angles 👌👍

[@sully4875]

Great story telling abilities if you have👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 FPV is the best 🔥 Your video on the Phantom roof rescue inspired me to work on a unit for my phantom that will rescue quads a little safer still testing it I'll let you know first because you inspired me 👍🏻👍🏻

[@EdRickerVlogs]

That's awesome! I bet your system is better than my bent clothes hanger hook haha. Let me know once you do a test run, would love to see a video.

[@bushcrafter6416]

The things we do to salvage and recover our drones. Classic!!!

[@jbolf6]

I really enjoyed this footage, nice job!

[@lynsmith1096]

Gooc video Ed

[@sanatkumarasharma3627]

The Mavic's grey color is actually too close to that of the pigeons! Once I was chased by an hawk and another time when I flew it too close to a row of trees when it was attacked by a storm of crows nested there (it's a territorial thing, I believe): both times I was able to make an escape but I was seriously considering to get those adhesive skins simulating the colors' scheme of dangerous or poisonous animals... BTW Ed, I believe Google removed those shots from Earth as I was not able to see you there: or are you perhaps on Maps? Anyway you actually look like you had been transported there from another time space continuum operating some mysterious sampling device, scouting for the colonization of the globe, exploring some invisible unknown dimension, or something... 8D

[@DougEfresh.]

Very cool thanks for sharing

[@danjensen9425]

So what do you think . Just happened to have my dvr on . I saw him fly away so he survived enough to fly away . I can not find a video like this .

[@EdRickerVlogs]

That's pretty crazy! I bet he got cut but hopefully not too bad. Pretty amazing that the hawk could actually connect with it...fast birds!

[@danjensen9425]

Yeah they are fast .

[@stuckintrees4796]

Love this kind of footage.👍

[@NoiseBoysGarage]

Great video

[@ednoi53]

4/23/2021 Your still standing there on Dorset St.

[@FireChicken747]

What a cool experience

[@overfly_pt]

Amazing 👌 fantastic 🔝

[@arthurward5756]

Nice video 👍😊

[@shyamk7849]

👏 nice one

[@tecgeetech1304]

very nice footage

[@K_Nasty]

I was flying at a creek near me and I lost video. I was trying to beep and arm so I coyld hear it . I finally found it sitting in the one deep hole underwater.... The qwad was fine.

[@allenoakley1799]

Being a Raleigh resident I enjoy seeing all the local landmarks and figuring where you're flying.

[@mickeymch876]

When I see hawks circling I'm always ready to throw it in sport mode and climb, decent or just run. I have a feeling the hawks are deciding if my quad would be a good meal. I also tried to retrieve a "budget" quad out of a tree using my M470 and a piece of Romex cable. To make a long story short, the M470 spent the winter of 2019 in the tree about 40' AGL with the "budget" quad. The M470 fell out in the spring. I weights over 5 lbs. + the battery so all the booms were bent, the landing gear bent, lower frame cracked, 2 escs shot and the 6s 5000 mah battery was damaged and dead.

[@FromAboveAndBeyondChannel]

Cool i have encontered the Hawks with both my air planes and my drones :)

[@stevevonb]

Just bought a mini 2, on my first day at the park a hawk dove on the drone. I dropped low to the ground and ran to the drone hoping the hawk would not attack me. It didn't, but keep flying low to the ground.

[@jdundag3058]

I wish i have a mavic mini or like that one as a gift on my birthday on September 13 , but i don't have money to buy , Thank u Ed Ricker Keep Safe & God Bless 🙂

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

Is it only possible to do those tight flying manoeuvres with goggles?

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Yeah you really need the goggles to see what you're doing.

[@fireislandmavic5939]

lol that is excellent, my first mavic was taken out by an osprey

[@MSR.]

It’s a constant journey for me 🤣🤚

[@kilingfpv2546]

wow nice video♥️

[@canadainboy24-graeme91]

Nice my only fear with drone crashing is tress and tall buildings and finding out if the drone broke in half in to millions of pieces n my parents would get so mad at me about it for not taking care of it

[@noname6568]

I was flying this morning, and saw three eagles in .y phone and immediately returned home. I was flying over a lake so no water landing gear! I did see pontoon landing gear for my air 2.

[@EdRickerVlogs]

That's crazy!!

[@noname6568]

@@EdRickerVlogs lost my mini a week ago to no fault of mine. In the water of course, but i had a motor failure at no fault of mine ,and sent in the footage , and it will be replaced.

[@unclemarky3]

hola lindo video desearía que sigan haciendo este metarial... Voy a seguir mirando sus creaciones. Les envio un saludo chau 🤞🏽👍🏽

[@Jack-es9xq]

funny stuff. there's a decent chance it's a falcon not a hawk. the squareness of the tail is consistent with falcons

[@TheONeillFamilyOriginal]

WE LOVE DRONES

[@muzikmon2267]

Fpv looks so cool but every time I watch it I LITERALLY FEEL LIKE I'M GETTING SICK AND HAVE TO LOOK AWAY 🤣 Also the same type of person that when I'm in a car if I look down in the back seat at my phone for too long I also get sick. This also happens at the carnival when I'm on a ride that goes round and round. Oddly enough roller coasters don't make me sick. 🤣

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Haha well I get that feeling as a passenger in a car as well. The big difference I think is that I'm the one operating the FPV drone and causing the movements...so it doesn't affect me. Kind of like, you can't tickle yourself, or you don't get carsick in the mountains when you're the one driving.

[@nexusly6720]

Hawks looking at drone like yeah you think your fast? I'll show you fast

[@KaneLono]

Cool ! fpv nail clippers!

[@RidiFPV]

Damn! Yall hit eachother alot!

[@EdRickerVlogs]

Haha usually only when we're following/chasing...probably happens to some extent every other flight session doing that. Probably best not to have two quads chasing a car simultaneously for that reason...much more likely to hit each other and then dent up the car. It's pretty rare to hit someone while flying two random flight patterns, but it still happens!!!

[@SWSimpson]

Hey! Thats funny & cool. There u iz. If you move down the road One can see your drone in flight too. Giant cathedral, rare to see one so big and new. Im not Catholic, I dont like crucifixes or statues or Mary, but its a beautiful bldg and surprisingly new. More surprised it has Jesus name on it too - thats rare. Some drone pix of it too... did u do that? Lol. My best friend is Brazilian and I went on street view to his parents house in Sao Paulo, the 4th most populous city in the world, and there was my best friend walking up his parents’ driveway! What are the odds? The pic was only there about 1 year though. I sent him a screen shot. It seemed for a moment he wasnt so far away. Lol. Thanks for sharing!

[@stevemann6082]

dont hover your drone with 10 inch blades at face height is my advice. had a propeller explode as i pumped the throttle and it nicked my throat looked like a razor cut 1 inch long across my neck. it didnt hurt but i just glad it wasn't my eye.

[@theamused8705]

Cool 😎

[@genefoxgreenmountaindroning]

Great info

[@budirahmani]

Cool bird

[@phantomf41]

1:32 LMAO

[@TheONeillFamilyOriginal]

Drones are great

[@IdahoMthman]

I have had a red tail dive on my phatom ³. I landed it right away

[@makeitdrone2.066]

Bellissimo 🔝

[@DEVINE.IMAGE.]

My most memorable moment was when i sent my dji drone to dronedoctor in the uk for repair and they ripped my pans down so over charged

[@dadsphone3329]

Hawk: you choose the wrong sky fool

[@Skip2105]

“I’ve been a bad drone!”

[@hallahgray3190]

Don’t give the defense industry, the idea of using trained birds to take down drones

[@hdtvcamera1]

Oh great... I just ordered a drone. We have lots of hawks and eagles around here.... Not a lot of squirrels or rabbits.

[@joshmccarty8800]

I had a hawk try to attack me driving down the road one day. Good thing I had my window up the bastard crashed right into it next to me and if it was open I might have crashed.

[@everybody5087]

Ever saw that scene in family guy where the bird had some sort of fetish with the drone 🤣

[@jenniferkristen80]

That's what I'm training my Hawk to do.