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On 9/27/2015 4:00 PM, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
> Jess Lurkin <NiceGuy@3456.com> wrote in news:mu70320ffb@news6.newsguy.com:
>
>> While on this subject, it makes me wonder about the cockpit
>> windscreens... those smallish rectangular styles that stayed
>> with the Brits way too long.
>>
>> What gets me to wondering is that the very old joke/story about
>> testing windscreens. Firing an air-cannon - dead turkey as ammo
>> versus firing a frozen turkey. The Brits always try to dump that
>> on the U.S. But these little pilot peepholes really make me think
>> it was the Brits that pulled that boner.
>>
>> Anyone want to nail that story down? Urban legend?
>
> Apparently urban legend: <http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp>.
>
> I heard of a chicken cannon in use at the National Research Council in Ottawa
> in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It is supposed to have been once deployed to
> CFB Uplands to engage targets other than windscreens--like an unpopular
> officer's car and the like. Alcohol was involved and might be said to be a
> contributing factor.
> <http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/bird_plane.html>
>
"Alcohol was involved..." - I find that hard to believe!
;-)
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