To: wideminded
Not really.
They have a huge pneumatic gun used to fire chicken carcasses into aircraft windscreens to test their durability and resistance to bird impact during flight.
The tube is round, the chicken isn't but the speed they shoot the uncooked beasty at reaches jumbo jet speeds close to 500 MPH or so.
The French bought such a gun off of us a long time ago.
They were horrified when the first chicken shot out of it smashed through their test windscreen and made a huge dent in the back cabin wall. (Full scale mockup test.)
They asked if this was normal, our techies told them:
"Thaw the chicken first."
10 posted on
07/07/2003 1:51:29 PM PDT by
Darksheare
("Here I come to ... Whatever" -Mighty Mouse on Prozac.)
To: Darksheare
PLEASE The French bought such a gun off of us a long time ago. They were horrified when the first chicken shot out of it smashed through their test windscreen and made a huge dent in the back cabin wall. (Full scale mockup test.) They asked if this was normal, our techies told them: "Thaw the chicken first."
Tell me this is true!
25 posted on
07/07/2003 2:41:39 PM PDT by
Freeper
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