Goodyear Aerospace fired dead chickens at jet engines.
Wiki Chicken gun. C/f Mythbusters (NSFC).
I heard one company couldn't work out why the test failed, and eventually discovered they'd used frozen chickens. Probably an urban legend.
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SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Wed 10 Apr 2019, 19:53,
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what did it sound like?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 10 Apr 2019, 19:58,
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Rhianna.
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SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Wed 10 Apr 2019, 20:02,
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oh no
I heard a sound like that by dropping one of the last nuts down the cam chain hole on a newly built motorcycle engine...
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 10 Apr 2019, 20:06,
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^This
I thought it would probably sink to the sump... nope, total destruction. (This was a long time ago)
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Ning Has taken out flounce insurance., Wed 10 Apr 2019, 20:23,
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After (homebrew assisted) furious shaking I gave in and rebuilt it.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 10 Apr 2019, 21:06,
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did it sound as pretty falling out as it did falling in?
or, indeed, just shaking it about?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 10 Apr 2019, 21:33,
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NO it bloody didn't.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 11 Apr 2019, 11:42,
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