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>>>> I've never seen a chicken fly. Except ballistically.
>>> Was it frozen?
>> Haha, I'd love to have seen that but as far as I know it's not even on
>> youtube... assuming you and Stephen are both thinking of the same thing?
>>
>> Aero's link is to something far sillier but only slightly funnier!
>
> Well I'm thinking of firing frozen chickens into an aero engine to simulate a
> bird strike.
Ever watched Jackass? :-P
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:00:53 +0000, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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>> Well I'm thinking of firing frozen chickens into an aero engine to simulate a
>> bird strike.
>
>Ever watched Jackass? :-P
I didn't mean that *I* was thinking of firing frozen chickens and no I don't
know the programme.
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Stephen wrote:
> Well I'm thinking of firing frozen chickens into an aero engine to simulate a
> bird strike.
The version I heard was a railway contractor who borrowed the thrower
from the engine manufacturer to simulate a bird strike on a high-speed
locomotive. Same punchline though... comprehensive destruction.
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:06:45 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> Well I'm thinking of firing frozen chickens into an aero engine to simulate a
>> bird strike.
>
>The version I heard was a railway contractor who borrowed the thrower
>from the engine manufacturer to simulate a bird strike on a high-speed
>locomotive. Same punchline though... comprehensive destruction.
I just googled it and the chicken was not frozen. :)
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Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:06:45 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> Well I'm thinking of firing frozen chickens into an aero engine to simulate a
>>> bird strike.
>> The version I heard was a railway contractor who borrowed the thrower
>>from the engine manufacturer to simulate a bird strike on a high-speed
>> locomotive. Same punchline though... comprehensive destruction.
>
> I just googled it and the chicken was not frozen. :)
Yeah, sounded a bit unbelievable. I can't see someone that stupid being
let near such a high-velocity launcher, let alone an aeroengine.
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:32:55 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
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>Yeah, sounded a bit unbelievable. I can't see someone that stupid being
>let near such a high-velocity launcher, let alone an aeroengine.
Sorry Bill, I'm a bit confused. I thought that the bird and aero engine test to
destruction was true. I certainly heard it when I worked on aero engines and
when I worked for RR Aerospace, a couple of years ago.
Or did you meant the train one?
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Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:32:55 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
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>> Yeah, sounded a bit unbelievable. I can't see someone that stupid being
>> let near such a high-velocity launcher, let alone an aeroengine.
>
> Sorry Bill, I'm a bit confused. I thought that the bird and aero engine test to
> destruction was true. I certainly heard it when I worked on aero engines and
> when I worked for RR Aerospace, a couple of years ago.
> Or did you meant the train one?
Er, I'm confused now! I thought the *frozen* bird-into-engine sounded
unlikely. I'm well aware that room-temperature birds are fired into
engines.
I honestly couldn't comment on the train story; I read it in the New
Scientist some years back and it talked about the 'engineers' doing the
test being surprised when the locomotive and indeed their lab wall was
destroyed by the impact (this was also with frozen birds)... the story
made it sound like they were all fools. Although, thinking about it, the
guy who loaded the thrower might well have been someone else entirely
(assuming it's true).
:)
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:17:20 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
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>Er, I'm confused now! I thought the *frozen* bird-into-engine sounded
>unlikely. I'm well aware that room-temperature birds are fired into
>engines.
My fault, I don't know where I got the frozen chicken from. It is a stupid idea
put it down to my cold ;)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen [mailto:mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom]
> My fault, I don't know where I got the frozen chicken from. It is a
> stupid idea
> put it down to my cold ;)
I thought MythBusters used a frozen chicken.
I'm not sure about the other experiments.
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:18:37 -0800, "Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
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>I thought MythBusters used a frozen chicken.
That rings a bell ;)
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