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- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Subject: Chicken Guns (was Re: "trivial engineering")
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.170452.21490@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Summary: They exist.
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
- References: <BzA75H.6Lp.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:04:52 GMT
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- In article <BzA75H.6Lp.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
- >By the way, somebody told me that tolerance to bird ingestion is tested by
- >means of a compressed air gun that shoots dead chickens into the engine,
- >to determine whether engine damage will result.
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- A former co-worker of mine worked at Pratt & Whitney on the F-100 (?)
- engine program in data acquisition for the test programs. He said they
- all looked forward to the visit of the Air Force Chicken Cannon with
- both anticipation and dread. Dead, fully feathered chickens are
- procured and shot into the front at high speed. He said the noise and
- smell were quite remarkable.
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- Edmund Hack - Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co. - Houston, TX
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