Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Flying turkeys
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed May 9 20:45:22 2007
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At 11:18 PM 5/9/2007, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
 >

 >Wild turkeys fly.
 >Butterball turkeys don't.

Well, that's not quite true.  There is a lot of 
hype about this, but the standard method for 
checking the durability of airplane engines is to 
shoot a defrosted turkey, the kind you buy at 
your local Growley-Mart, at them wtih a 
compressed air cannon so that they are travelling 
at 180 mph (280kph or so) on impact, the 
conditions which would be encountered in flight 
conditions were a flock of geese to fly onto the 
airfield on landing or taking off.  Apparently, 
the US Air Force does the same on F-16 cockpit 
windows at around 400 mph (640kph).

Those interested should check out Snopes at

http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.htm

But, in any event, Butterball turkeys, or their 
equivalent, DO fly, though, admittedly, not under their own steam.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



Replies: Reply from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Re: Flying turkeys)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Flying turkeys)