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The Chicken Gun
In a recent issue of "Meat and Poultry" magazine, editors
quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry
Industry Federation, telling the following story:
It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device
for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun
that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the
speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass
impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight. It seems
the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield
on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing. They borrowed the
FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken
shattered the windshield, went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument
panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British
were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything
was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
Use a thawed chicken.
with thanks to Don and Dorothy Daybell
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