Re:Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
by 4gotunameagain on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:39PM
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Bird Ingestion Tests [0] are performed with a chicken gun™ in order to test the damage a bird would do to the engine. They don't put metal rings on them though !
Someone once told me, but I can't remember whether it was an aviator or an ornithologist, that a bird with a metal ring on its leg could cause total destruction of a jet engine. Of course they don't attach metal rings to birds any more and haven't done so for a long time, and I'm not sure how big the risk was even with the chunkiest of old-fashioned rings.
(What about a bird with an arrow stuck through it, I wonder? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch )