[sir-alien]

Got to wonder the damage that will happen to the bird. The larger drones which these tests are for would do some serious damage to the birds legs if the pilot kept the motors turning. If the pilot is intent on breaking away, they would not care about the birds well being.

Some of these drones also put out a fair amount of thrust so even if the drone is upside-down it could quite easily pull down the bird.

Somehow I feel that this training of large birds to catch drones just has not been thought through. Would a net cannon not but more successful especially when using high tensile netting. For mobility, attach net cannon to police multi rotor.

[falcolas]

A multirotor carrying a heavy payload is not going to have a lot of thrust to spare to apply to the bird. The rotors only typically run in one direction as well, so it couldn't suddenly apply counter thrust.

Most multirotor autopilots also would behave in a very expected fashion when disturbed, making them pretty predictable.