I once only thought that birds were a danger to get sucked into engines and gum them all up with bird guts and feathers, causing possible fires and/or engine failures.
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Westinghouse (in the 1940's) used to run tests on aircraft windows so they could strengthen the windows and lessen the impact of bird crashes. They developed a "chicken gun" that would fire a dead chicken at different window materials in order to test the effect of crashes. I once heard a speech given by one of the "chicken gun" engineers.
ReplyDeleteI read that there were numerous problems until someone figured out the chickens first had to be thawed out if they were frozen
ReplyDeleteYes, I believe it was the British who were telling the States that they were having a problem that the windows kept breaking when tested the frozen chicken. The response was "Gentlemen thaw your chickens." It was a mythbusters episode.
ReplyDeleteThat is correct. The frozen chickens were like big rocks. That is what the Westinghouse engineer said. This was about 20 years ago when I heard this speech. I didn't know it was also on mythbusters. What "myth" were they busting?
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