Re: Chicken Guns (was Re: "trivial engineering")

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From: Pat
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:15

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The F-16 in the early 80's was having a real problem with bird strikes
fracturing the canopies, so i heard for a while the air force
was launching Frozen turkeys and chickens at the aircraft
to test canopies.  i guess the frozen bit was to make the birds
harder.

it was a tidbit in the paper.

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