Playboy After Hours
July, 1983
Faster than a speeding PouletAs Air Force jets fly faster and practice at lower altitudes, cockpit windshields are more likely to be struck and shattered by birds. Engineers at an Air Force development facility in Tullahoma, Tennessee, are faced with creating not only new designs to close that window of vulnerability but also a way to test them.Their solution: the Chicken Gun. This long-barreled weapon fires chicken carcasses into windshields at speeds in excess of 700 mph.If our Air Force has t...
