Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, The USAF "Chicken Gun" is located at Arnold Engineering Development Center near Tullahoma, TN. This is the same base where I spent 39 years working with wind tunnels and other experimental facilities. While I never worked with the gun, I have seen the damage done to some of their test windshields. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Flying turkeys > 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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >