From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/10/21 Message-ID: <326BBF04.20F6@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 190995865 references: <96101610071768@psavax.pwfl.com> <32678222.6F5C@lmtas.lmco.com> <549ofg$k9m@news.ccit.arizona.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Frank Manning wrote: > > In article <32678222.6F5C@lmtas.lmco.com> Ken Garlington > > > > As for the birds, there is an interesting test done here in Fort Worth. > > (At least, we used to do it -- I haven't actually witnessed one of these > > tests lately). To determine if the canopy will survive a bird strike, > > they actually take a bird (presumably of mil-spec size and weight), load > > it into a cannon-type deveice, and fire the bird at the canopy. By the > > way, it's not a good idea to use a _frozen_ bird for this test... > > When I was in the Air Force, I heard a rumor there was an Air > Force facility that used chickens for similar testing. At one > time the guy in charge was a certain Colonel Sanders... Similar testing was done in the Chinese air force. The program was so successful that its director, Colonel Tso was promoted to the rank of general. :-) -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen