Carolyn/Rick wrote:
> Caught ya,
>
> So you are the one who developed the Duck Cannon. I knew it had to be a
> spridgeteer to develop something like this. Tell me something, they
> say they used frozen ducks. Did they freeze them to shoot them out of
> the cannon or was it because you couldn't persuade a duck to fly
> directly into the mouth of a Gas turbine. Messy business working on
> these Gas Turbines.
>
> We made a potato cannon once. Used to shoot them up on the carriers'
> decks. I know, we submariners were a little crude. LOL 8~}
> Heard it different......British used it to test windscreens on airplanes,
> but none of the windscreens passed. Upon a review they discovered that you
> used THAWED birds for the test as frozen ones would shatter durn near
> anything they hit.
Just my version of a rumor!
Bruce Lowry
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