Ballistic Chickens

In a recent issue of "Meat & Poultry" Magazine, editors quoted from the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation telling the following (true) story: It seems that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun (developed by Texas A&M) that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed that the plane flies. The theory is that if the window does not crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight. Well, it seems that the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand-new high speed locomotive they were developing. They borrowed one of the FAA's chicken launchers, loaded a chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly. The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had just one recommendation: "Use a thawed chicken."

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