[tang-soo]

The turbine of a modern jet will digest a single anything naturally airmobile made of meat. While they may return out of general safety and prudence if there was serious damage I’d be intrigued...

My first professional job was as an engineer with General Dynamics in Ft. Worth during the early to mid 1980s. That's when they were building the F-16 fighter. I remember a story, i think in the local paper about a woman in Ft. Worth who was contracted by General Dynamics to grow chickens at a prescribed weight and density to be used for "testing." They used a type of air-cannon to fire the chickens at the canopy of F-16s in what they called, "the bird-strike test."

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

They used a type of air-cannon to fire the chickens at the canopy of F-16s in what they called, "the bird-strike test."

The similar testing done on the B-1A used frozen turkeys as I recall. (That launcher was sure a fun project.)

Don't remember if they were thawed or not, but I'll never forget that Fickle Finger Award we got from the Smothers Brothers about it.