OT: A&P (was Re: More on fP 6.0 features)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:45:21AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Vermillion said here...:
> > And the frozen turkeys not only can not fly, they could be lethal
> > if they fell on you.
> 
> Oh, what was it they were testing by shooting frozen turkeys out of a
> canon.  I want to say something on cars...windshields maybe?  I know I saw
> a documentary where they were doing this, seriously.

The FAA fires unfrozen chickens into airliner engines.  And maybe
windshields.

http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.htm

http://home.xnet.com/~warinner/chickens.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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