Dave and List
Back in the early 60s I was working at the now defunct
Douglas aircraft and we built an air cannon to test the DC-* and later
aircraft for bird strikes. This was a very interesting program to be
involved with.
We were required to move the cannon tests to Canada as on a hot day while
testing the leading edge of a DC-10 veridical stabilizer the bird ricocheted
and exploded all over a golf course while a ladies tournament was going on.
The Cop's and ASPCA were called in and they made us stop testing. With guts
and feathers all over the area it was more then the ladies could take.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. E. Adin, Photographer" <adin@frontier.net>
To: "LandSpeed list" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: white as far as the eye can see. . . .
> but I don't think its salt.
>
> This "news" just in . . .
>
> Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound
> dead
> chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space
> shuttle,
> all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent
> incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the
> windshields.
>
> British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the
> windshields of their new high-speed trains.
>
> Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers.
> When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled
> out
> of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to
> smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's
> backrest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like
> an
> arrow shot from a bow The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results
> of
> the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US
> scientists for suggestions.
>
>
> You're going to love this...
>
>
> NASA responded with a one-line memo:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Defrost the chicken."
>
> on a salt free diet,
> (now, back to Bonneville Wide Open)
>
> David in Durango
> Crusty Old Fart Extraordinaire
> Icky Old Man
>
> Not For Hire
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