EAGLE AND AEROPLANE.
The bird men find no friends in the air, not even among the 'birds. Prince George Bibesco stated after his flight to India that twice within a few hours he had been attacked by eagles. The first eagle crashed head-on tqithe middle engine, just before the aeroplane reached Allahabad, and that might have been an accident even from the bird’s point of view. Certainly the eagle suf-, fered most. Another eagle dropped like a stone from a groat height above the aeroplane, though the machine was itself soaring at 6000 ft. It was an eagle's stoop, like that of a hawk on its prey, and it damaged the metal wing of the machine. An aeroplane in the air is very easily, deranged. and this assault might easily have proved disastrous to the airman.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 2
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136EAGLE AND AEROPLANE. Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 2
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