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2007-07-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Zenster 2007-07-19 13:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 And here in the good ol' US of A we do a similiar bird outa cannon thingy: dead and frozen chikens are fired at approx. 600 mph into aircraft windscreens / canopies to simulate an in-flight bird strike; used to use real live chickens until PETA came along and protested. Attempts to stuff a PETA-ite into the cannon to replace the chicken were unsuccessful; the cannon rejected it.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-07-19 14:58|| 2007-07-19 14:58|| Front Page Top

#2 They are defrosted first

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-07-19 15:36|| 2007-07-19 15:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember a demonstration with the chickens by either Rolls Royce or GE on their turbo fan engines on our KC-10 aircraft, it was pretty cool. Also heard they use gerbils for celebrity aircraft engines.

Posted by Rich G. 2007-07-19 17:24|| 2007-07-19 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 defrosted: Not necessarily. Snopes
Not everyone fires thawed birds: before switching to fake birds, the U.S. Air Force traditionally launched frozen ones. (Sensitive to the concerns of animal-rights activists, they now fling birds made of clay and plastic at canopies and engines.) The way the Air Force had it figured, if a canopy could survive an impact with a frozen bird, it would certainly live through a chance introduction to one that could still fly under its own power. They further believed cold chickens provided a better simulation of a bird that had tensed to prepare for the impact.

I could see canopies surviving frozen chickens, but surely the turbine tests used thawed birds.

One amazing vid I remember seeing was a crewman getting sucked into the engine of an A-6 Intruder as the pilot revved the engines and exiting the exhaust. Heck of a fire and light show, but the lucky victim escaped with only cuts and bruises.

Posted by ed 2007-07-19 17:54|| 2007-07-19 17:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Video: Sucked Into Jet Engine

Posted by ed 2007-07-19 17:58|| 2007-07-19 17:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Whoops, the crewman didn't go through the engine. A follow up video explains what happened. Man verses Jet Engine

Makes more sense than assuming the turbines blades broke off just before he went through the engine.

Posted by ed 2007-07-19 18:09|| 2007-07-19 18:09|| Front Page Top

#7 we do a similiar bird outa cannon thingy

There's another cannon that I'd like to see even more. According to the NRC's FSAR (Final Safety Analysis Report), reactor containment walls are supposed to withstand the impact of a large object moving at hurricane force. The most common item fitting this description is a telephone pole flying at ~100 MPH speeds.

I've seen footage of a cannon that fires telephone poles into containment wall test samples. It is astonishing to an entire telephone pole disintegrate upon impact into toothpicks as if it's being fed into a shredder with a serious blowback problem. From another report I read while searching for a link to this, they did try flying a 481MPH fighter jet into an unanchored wall sample and it produced a two inch deep impact crater.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-19 18:10|| 2007-07-19 18:10|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope the pilot was ok, Zenster.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-19 18:46|| 2007-07-19 18:46|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm pretty sure the pilot's name was "Otto".

Posted by Threasing Borgia6005 2007-07-19 23:21|| 2007-07-19 23:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Doh! Cookie monster attack! The above was me.

Posted by Zenster 2007-07-19 23:28|| 2007-07-19 23:28|| Front Page Top

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