Mythbusters did the chicken and aircraft thing recently. Found out it
makes essentially no difference whether the chickens are frozen or
thawed... They all penetrate the average private aircraft windscreen.
Moral: avoid bird strikes.
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew Gullen
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:03 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT]... chicken and aircraft, but were afraid to ask..
on 2006/01/27 7:33 AM, Andrew Fildes at afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Reminds me of a story I heard regarding Rolls Royce testing prototype
> jet engines with chickens from the supermarket...
> AndrewF
The National Research Council in Ottawa had (and probably still has) a
chicken gun for testing aircraft resistance to bird strikes. I got to
tour as a student. No demo unfortunately, but the previously-tested
windshields were pretty sobering.
They keep the chickens in a freezer until they're needed, and say that
it is
*essential* to thaw the chicken. :-)
Andrew
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