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[Robert Harley]

Damien Morton wrote:
>I heard a story once.
>
>In the 70s French made jet engines had a higher rating for ingested birds.
>
>They test engines by firing birds into them at 500 mph from a compressed
>air gun.
>
>Turns out the French were using live birds. [...]  Opening their wings
>slowed them down by X amount and the French engines got a nice high rating
>[...]

Sounds like a made-up story based on the possibly slightly true story
that British Rail borrowed an American 'chicken cannon' to test
wind-screens on their high-speed trains for bird impacts... apparently
the test shot smashed through the wind-screen, smashed through the
drivers seat and broke an instrument panel on the back cabin wall.

After much communication to-and-fro, the cannon's designer's finally
twigged the problem and suggested a solution: "Defrost the chicken first."


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