Frozen Birds - Yeah.He's winding you up. Frozen birds don't flap. There is a requirements that aircraft engines can cope with being hit by a bird (I know!) and probably something similar for the aircraft.
Nice photos at
community.webshots.com/album/7715991EBaTmHolTI/1
In the industry, there's an urban legend about British Rail borrowing the UK engine company's bird gun to test their new train design, and some jerk using a frozen bird (with hilarious consequences.) Sound slike your dad's quoting a variant of this story.
Maybe I'll post about my job as a Roustabout...
(Nice photos at
community.webshots.com/album/7715991EBaTmHolTI/1
In the industry, there's an urban legend about British Rail borrowing the UK engine company's bird gun to test their new train design, and some jerk using a frozen bird (with hilarious consequences.) Sound slike your dad's quoting a variant of this story.
Maybe I'll post about my job as a Roustabout...
Tepid_Halibut felt like a cold, empty shell of a human...until,
Tue 11 Nov 2003, 16:14,
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Maybe they defrosted the turkey first.Would have made for a more realistic simulation. Would also be more humane than collecting live birds and hurling them at the plane...?
Maybe? I don't know...
(Maybe? I don't know...
monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?,
Tue 11 Nov 2003, 16:28,
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I get imagesof them using parrots
and the parrots letting out a last squawk
and now I'm laughing... Hull for me
(and the parrots letting out a last squawk
and now I'm laughing... Hull for me
beefandcheese,
Wed 12 Nov 2003, 17:18,
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NahMy mate, an aero engineer, has told me a similar story, they test their planes by chucking birds at them. Probably defrost them. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't, cos a safety margin is an engineers best friend.
He's told me some scary stories about planes.
(,
Tue 11 Nov 2003, 20:26,
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He's told me some scary stories about planes.
Alas this is trueAs an aircraft deisgn engineer you get to see some terrifying things, but I have actually seen a military aircraft (no names but seeing as I work in Britain you can probably work it out) tested with a frozen chicken and the resultant mess. This was in 1997 during the certification tests, suffice to say the authorities were not shown the results instead a new aircraft was obtained and a non-frozen chicken used..
( Dr. trouser,
Wed 12 Nov 2003, 8:37,
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