Chicken gun
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chicken-gun-174-7029328
title:
Chicken gun
text:
A chicken gun or flight impact simulator is a large-diameter, compressed-air gun used to fire bird carcasses at aircraft components in order to simulate high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft's flight. Jet engines and aircraft windshields are particularly vulnerable to damage from such strikes, and are the most common target in such tests. Although various species of bird are used in aircraft testing and certification, the device acquired the common name of "chicken gun" as chickens are the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Device to simulate bird strikes on aircraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
date created:
2005-08-12T02:41:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:03:21Z
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