At 09:13 AM 9/6/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>In response to the stories about the "rooster booster", which
>>is the nickname given to the compressed air cannon that fires
>>birds and simulated birds at aircraft windscreens and into aircraft
>>intakes
>
>This thread reminds me of an incedent at this years GoF West. The main
>hotel for this years event was on the Washington side of the Columbia
>River, but the car show was next to the river on the Oregon side. On the
>way across the bridge a bird must of let loose of a fish that it had
>caught. Now this fish could have hit a million other things but it hit the
>windshield of a TC square on. I didn't have the pleasure of seeing this
>mess but I heard it was pretty grotesque. And yes I believe the windshield
>did survive.
>
>cheers, lane
>
Did it hit Bass ackward?
Don Mathis,Ph.D.
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
donmathis@lucent.com
'61 MGA '37 Bentley
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