Re: Chicken guns

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From: John Roberts
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:22

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-From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
-Subject: Re: Chicken Guns (was Re: "trivial engineering")
-Date: 18 Dec 92 18:15:34 GMT
-Organization: UDSI

-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.

I've heard that birds sometimes get caught in an updraft and frozen.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to happen very often, and aircraft can
presumably avoid such updrafts.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

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