Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The USAF "Chicken Gun" is located at Arnold Engineering Development Center > near Tullahoma, TN. This is the same base where I spent 39 years working > with wind tunnels and other experimental facilities. While I never worked > with the gun, I have seen the damage done to some of their test > windshields. I've seen it and talked to its custodians. They said that it is intended to be used with 4-pound chicken carcasses. However, I never got to see it shoot a chicken; I saw only sponges and foam plastic being fired, using compressed gas as a propellant.