Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Flying turkeys
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Wed May 9 22:19:23 2007
References: <200705100252.l4A2pXhM028484@server1.waverley.reid.org><A496E702-FB47-4A41-A2EF-74FA1DA8F699@optonline.net> <200705100331.l4A3V25s035094@server1.waverley.reid.org> <014e01c792c1$aab60ef0$6101a8c0@jimnichols>

> 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.




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Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Re: Flying turkeys)
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