Plane finds hail

[ToyMaker]

It's not just a 'story'.

the part about "Colonel Sanders' Kentucky fired chicken" might be a bit of an embellishment

robotic regards,

Tom

[timf]

first let me say, this is my first post here. i just found this board recently when i ran across a link to it at another board.
i work in a machine shop near dayton ohio.and i know the chicken thing is true. i once made part of a new latching parts for the cockpit canopy of air force jets. the prototypes i made were molded in the canopy and then they fired chickens at them to test the integrity of the new design to see if they would fracture.
the way i understood it then was the chickens were whole and fresh but not alive.
i believe the testing was done at wright patterson base here local.
i still have the fixtures to make the parts on my shelf, that was at least 6-7 years ago.
i even seen the parts (or at least same as mine) at a playground by the base, they had a canopy mounted to a wooden playset for kids to climb on.

[timf]

wow i've been censored.
that was my first time ever.
the glass/plastic bubble over the "area where the pilot sits" is what i meant to say.

[avsfan733]

Rekd I have seen that same video, and from the little bit I know about turbines, I assumed that his helmet must have torn up the inside of the engine allowing him throuhg, they have a lot of fan blades very close to one another and I don't think a person could get through there without either damaging the engine or damaging himself.

[Bloy2004]

Actually, the guy was sucked in but was able to stay in front of the engine because his gear caught and saved him. I saw a program that described the incident. He was taken out from the front after shutdown. The flame that shot out was from loose items that went through.