Monday, January 7, 2013

Angry Birds: Aviation


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.


If you like "Bird on Plane Porn" then this blog (like the pic below) will certainly make you say "whoa!"


4 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. I read that there were numerous problems until someone figured out the chickens first had to be thawed out if they were frozen

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  3. Yes, 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.

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  4. That 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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