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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:00:38 -0500, Andrew Chaplin <ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
>Jess Lurkin <NiceGuy@3456.com> wrote in news:mu70320ffb@news6.newsguy.com:
>
>> While on this subject, it makes me wonder about the cockpit
>> windscreens... those smallish rectangular styles that stayed
>> with the Brits way too long.
>>
>> What gets me to wondering is that the very old joke/story about
>> testing windscreens. Firing an air-cannon - dead turkey as ammo
>> versus firing a frozen turkey. The Brits always try to dump that
>> on the U.S. But these little pilot peepholes really make me think
>> it was the Brits that pulled that boner.
>>
>> Anyone want to nail that story down? Urban legend?
>
>Apparently urban legend: <http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp>.
>
>I heard of a chicken cannon in use at the National Research Council in Ottawa
>in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It is supposed to have been once deployed to
>CFB Uplands to engage targets other than windscreens--like an unpopular
>officer's car and the like. Alcohol was involved and might be said to be a
>contributing factor.
><http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/bird_plane.html>
Wikipedia has some interesting information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
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