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Sunday, October 1, 2023
Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic. What if a big goose flew right into that?
The Air Force takes a chicken and loads it into a cannon and fires it at the plane. They let the British know how they tested the canopies of their jets. The Brits tried the test and blew holes in all of their planes canopies. The Brits went back to the Americans and showed them how the chickens were destroying the planes. The USAF let the Brits know that they would let the chicken thaw out before they fired it.
The FAA fires 4lb chickens at aircraft windshields at the aircraft's maximum speed as part of the airworthiness certification tests. The problem is that geese weigh a lot more, up to 20lbs for a Canada goose and because they fly in a vee formation you don't hit just one. Plexiglass can be made quite thick, the windshield on a Cessna Citation is about 5/8 inch thick. Al_in_Ottawa
Must be in the front row.
ReplyDeleteAs Gene Tracy might say, 'that plane is double-barrelled ugly'
ReplyDeleteThe Air Force takes a chicken and loads it into a cannon and fires it at the plane. They let the British know how they tested the canopies of their jets. The Brits tried the test and blew holes in all of their planes canopies. The Brits went back to the Americans and showed them how the chickens were destroying the planes. The USAF let the Brits know that they would let the chicken thaw out before they fired it.
ReplyDeleteThe FAA fires 4lb chickens at aircraft windshields at the aircraft's maximum speed as part of the airworthiness certification tests. The problem is that geese weigh a lot more, up to 20lbs for a Canada goose and because they fly in a vee formation you don't hit just one.
DeletePlexiglass can be made quite thick, the windshield on a Cessna Citation is about 5/8 inch thick.
Al_in_Ottawa
wait'll he finds out all the paper is still on the apron in Guam.
ReplyDeleteThe gunner is manspreading.
ReplyDeleteSniper target
ReplyDeleteHow come he doesn't get a windshield wiper?
ReplyDeleteThink of the electronic radiation from the leaky waveguides barbecuing the observers nuts while he relaxes in the observers seat.
ReplyDeleteNice of them to include a piano bar for those long, dull flights.
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