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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:42:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dingbaum <expressct@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Bird Strikes
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someone asked what was a chicken gun.  I heard this story a few years
ago
and found it again on the web.....

The Federal Aviation Administration uses a unique device to test the
strength of windshields on aircraft. It's a big gun that fires a dead
chicken at about the speed that the plane flies. The F-A-A figures
that if a windshield survives the impact, it will survive a real
collision with a bird in flight.

A couple of years ago, some British railroad officials decided to use
the gun to test the windshield of a new locomotive. They borrowed the
launcher, loaded a chicken, aimed it at the locomotive and fired. The
chicken proceeded to shatter the windshield and embed itself in the
back wall of the cab.

The stunned Brits asked the F-A-A to help them find out what went
wrong. After a thorough review, the F-A-A had just one
recommendation: "Use a thawed chicken."


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