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stormiestl
stormiestlI want one of these!!!!!! I am thinking I could have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun......
NASA's Chicken Gun fires foam rubber chunks at speeds up to 1,500 miles
per hour. The device is used to test how well the space shuttle's solid
rocket booster can handle the impact of external tank foam pieces that
break away during flight. The gun was nicknamed for its usual ammunition:
"In normal use, experts fire chicken carcasses at a test target at
varying speeds to simulate a direct bird-strike during flight."
Link (via Science Blog):
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008554
NASA's Chicken Gun fires foam rubber chunks at speeds up to 1,500 miles
per hour. The device is used to test how well the space shuttle's solid
rocket booster can handle the impact of external tank foam pieces that
break away during flight. The gun was nicknamed for its usual ammunition:
"In normal use, experts fire chicken carcasses at a test target at
varying speeds to simulate a direct bird-strike during flight."
Link (via Science Blog):
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008554
