saw that one lean great show. I remember seeing those canopies flexing and thoght, “How wonderful an idea” Now where is the one for my car?
Arnold AFS(Air Force Station) is just outside of Tullahoma, TN.
The reason for the “Rooster Booster” was because of the bird strikes on F-111As in Vietnam. Seems the canopies were primarily glass and with the ground following nav and the height they were operating at, birds were causing unacceptable losses. It was put in around 1970-72, and as far as I know, is still in use. It could make a guy swear off chicken for a while…
Yes a bird can do vary savier damage to an aircraft my father was a crewchief in the airforce stationed at peterson AFB CO. His C130 was coming back from a trip when it hit a redtailed hawk the hawk went throught both starbord engine neccels and hit the leeding edge putting one huge hole in the wing. after they ad landed my dad checked out the damage thought what they call crawl space in the wing hes bird and guts all over never really did get the smell out.
Let’s build ourselves one
the chicken cannon story aside, I wouldn’t trust much of what Mythbusters declares as “myth busted”. Some of their proofs looks pretty solid and i’ll admit watching them blow stuff up is very entertaining but their experimental methods seem pretty severely flawed. I couldn’t give any specific examples since I stopped watching the show but i do vaguely remember something to the effect of them just trying something once and declaring the probability of it ever happening as null and void. The discovery channel has been going down-hill as far as scientific merit lately.
Look up the Canadian Royal Air Farce Chicken cannon
Every new years that blast all sorts of waste all pictures of politicians, people etc.
I wonder how transparent Aluminum will be used for canopies. Will it be used as canopies by itself of combined or laminated over glass as extra strength so clarity will be better??
I cannot recall the year- but a “Bone” was brought down by a pelican-resulting in the loss of the crew. Pelicans are big birds-and the velocity makes them bigger.
Well, as it stands now, I would not want to have to look through what they have come up with and look for bad guys. Yes, it is transparent but it is far from being clear.
Last I heard it was up to 95% clarity and improving. Maybe within the next decade it’ll be on the market in some way. I think public aquariums would be interested. Zoos as well.
OK, what puzzles me is how did they prepare those birds after the planes had landed, what sauce was served with it ?
Who knows- Dan, but they were tenderized,
the history of the Chicken Cannon was to test the canopy of the F-16 back in the early to late 70’s, first they fired the frozen birds at the canopy with good results, then someone thought that most birds wont be frozen when the hit the canopy but thawd so the engineers decided to try the un-frozen birds to make it more realistic and found out the frozen bird caused more distruction then frozen, now just about everything that has been designed for high speed is now in line for the “Chicken Cannon” to see if it too could hold up to the distructive power of a bird body flying at high speeds at it, I’ve seen everything from canopies to trains to auto grilles to missile payload skirts being fired on
smokinguns3; whats your fathers name? I might know him I’d used to be in the 302nd AW at Pete Field
You would be surprized what a much smaller bird can do at lower velocities. We hit something about the size of a dove at 140 kts and it went through the greenhouse of a Blackhawk. Granted it is just plexiglass but it takes a fair ammount of force to punch a hole straight through that stuff. And you wouldn’t believe how long it took to clean that little bitty bird out of my bird.
Mac
i can vouch for the fact that a Rangerover grill won’t stand an impact of a pidgeon at 40 mph, there was feathers and plastic all over the place and a bloody mess to hose out of the radiator matrix. UGH.
all the best.
Greg
AMEN Goatmonkey! The Discovery Channel was one of my favorite educational channels They might as well go to network television instead of cable. You have to watch a lot of crap before you get to see something that is new and interesting.
I definitely agree with both of you–the Discovery channel has essentially become “all ‘Monster Garage’ all the time.” I don’t even bother with it any more.
Well, I know a Mazda 6 won’t take a dove to the grille at 50 mph either! Nasty, just nasty! Found the main carcass a month later when I took the front end off to change the headlights and fix the grille [dinner]