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Subject: Re: Weird Cannon
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.051557.23279@amd.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 05:15:57 GMT
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From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass personal account)

In article <1991Mar21.011112.5929@cbnews.att.com> jbrod@radarnet.hac.com (Jeff Brodsky) writes:
>The "chicken cannon" story is true.  A very close friend of mine works
>for McDonnell Douglas, in flight test.

Apparently the story about some engineer forgetting to unfreeze
the chicken is pretty true.  I was talking with a friend who deals
a lot with Lockheed, and he remembers the frozen chicken story with
the L-1011.  

He also told me of another time when Rolls-Royce was testing the
Olympus engines for the Concorde and ran a chicken test.  The
engines are built in pods of two, and, you guessed it, the engineer
forgot to defrost the chicken.  One engine engulfed the six pound
frozen chicken at about 200 mph and quickly proceeded to
disintegrate, taking the second the engine with it.  $10 Million in
1960s dollars violently scattered itself about the test range until
there was no more.
	
	[ Enough stories about fowl play; unless someone has
	 references. :-) --CDR]

-- 
Brian Douglass			brian@edat.uucp