Light Aircraft "eaten" by cows?

Being an aeromodeller we often get cow munching at our models especially if they are sprayed with cellulose and constructed with balsa wood – I think it is the flavoured crunch they like, or they just lick the balsa clean when it has fuel spray on it.
We are fast runners when a model comes down near cows or you are too late the crunch has set in.

dakota2

One “hangglider” trick is to park right up to the electrical fence (if available) and connect the hangglider via sailpin (or similar). Should keep nosey tongues away! :dev2:

Neat trick, but I hate to think what this might do to the avionics on an SEP 😮

Moggy

Had to be an Auster!!

not really, it could have been a MOOney 😉
Greg

One “hangglider” trick is to park right up to the electrical fence (if available) and connect the hangglider via sailpin (or similar). Should keep nosey tongues away! :dev2:

It has always been a known thing in gliding circles that if you land a fabric covered aircraft in a field of cows they are partial to licking the fabric to destruction because of their dope affinity.

Crazy dope fiend cows…this drug stuff is getting out of hand. 😎

It has always been a known thing in gliding circles that if you land a fabric covered aircraft in a field of cows they are partial to licking the fabric to destruction because of their dope affinity.

http://www.bluerobin.flyer.co.uk/cowauster.gif

Thng is when you take the rag off any tube a whole multitude of other problems surface 🙁

That must have been one hungry cow! I have not seen any photos, but to cause £10,000 of damage, it must surely have eaten the engine as well, given that a whole Auster is £12-15K. Recovering / welding /rebuilding a complete Cub fuselage was around £4K not too long ago. Perhaps it ate some ribs as well.

Back in the early days of American aviation, the “Barnstormers” flying Jennys, Standards and WACOs would hire local boys to spend the night with the planes kept in pastures to prevent such occurences.

It’s something about the dope on the fabric that attracks the cows/bulls.

In return for their nigh****chman duties and other chores, the kids would get a free flight. A lot of boys who went onto fly in the war got their first flights that way.

I should imagine it’d be difficult to moo-ve too…

I’m not going to beef about it too much, but there seems to be heifer such a lot of damage, according to the photograph in the Mail!! 😀

That was udder pathetic………….

Wonder whether they left the cow lings on it?

Now now Damien, don’t milk it…

There is a half page story in today’s ‘Daily Mail’ The aircraft is a Auster J1N. The photo shows the fuselage stripped of covering from cockpit to tailplane. The aircraft is based at Oaksey Park. No reg. visible. Estimated £10,000 damage. 😮
mmitch.

Had to be an Auster!! 😡 😡 😡 Hope it’s repairable and sympathy to the owners.

There is a half page story in today’s ‘Daily Mail’ The aircraft is a Auster J1N. The photo shows the fuselage stripped of covering from cockpit to tailplane. The aircraft is based at Oaksey Park. No reg. visible. Estimated £10,000 damage. 😮
mmitch.

It is a well known fact that fabric aircraft and cows don’t mix.

Anybody got any more info?

Moggy