Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!ashcraft
From: ashcraft@yale.UUCP (Cleve Ashcraft)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: W.S.J. article: army's use of birds
Message-ID: <42309@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 20:40:21 GMT
References: <56200001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ashcraft@yale-celray.UUCP (Cleve Ashcraft)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT
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In article <56200001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> richman@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Did anyone else catch the story in Wed. Nov. 2nd Wall Street
>Journal about the new army helicopter.  Seems that they have
>developed a new helicopter engine which was "tested" by tossing
>live birds into it to insure it wouldn't stall.  Any comments?

i don't know about live birds and helicopter engines, but there was
a story i heard about boeing testing their jet engines by shooting
frozen turkeys into the engines while at full power. considering
that flocks of birds getting chewed up in jet engines can bring
down a plane, some kind of testing should be done.