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From: jackson@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Chicken Gun
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Date: 27 Mar 91 23:07:14 GMT
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From: jackson@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Continuing the 'Chicken Gun' thread...

About 10 years or so ago, 60 Minutes had a segment describing this very
thing, calling it the chicken cannon or chicken gun.  They showed many
slo-mo shots of birds going thru the windscreens of civilian and
military aircraft.

They also had an interview with a pilot (of a F111 I believe) who had
survived a Canadian Goose strike.  The thing entered the left side of
the windscreen, went thru the HUD (?), and carried on thru his shoulder
on into the back of the aircraft.  The pictures of his injuries were
unbelievable...it had taken out his collarbone and part of his shoulder
socket.  After years of rehab it still looked terrible!

By the by...the pet name for the cannon as called by the techs who fire
it was the... "Rooster Booster" (no kidding!)

Dwight Jackson
(U of C)