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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4017008" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>Two brothers in Medicine Lodge, KS were crazy suckers. Each brother tried to "outdo" the other when it came to stunts. That was just their personalities. One brother was relating to me he was assisting in bird strike tests on canopies and cockpit windows at Boeing in Wichita so take this tale with a grain of salt. Maybe a bag of salt. </p><p></p><p>They too had a specially built air cannon but they didn't use frozen then thawed birds, they used live chickens. Their thinking was that the bird would bounce off but the sharp beak hitting was an unknown because the usual procedure was the heads were always cut off of the birds when shot so they decided to use live birds. They had a special harness they made from stiff cardboard to hold the chicken's heads straight. </p><p></p><p>Well, this live bird shooting went on for about a week when a conscientious passerby noticed the carnage and the fact they were using live birds. It was brought to the attention of the higher ups that Boeing was murdering chickens with their planes which really caused an uproar. </p><p></p><p>In typical Boeing fashion, memos were produced, meetings held, and it was determined to kill the chickens before shooting them since they already had the neck harness it didn't matter if the chicken was alive or dead when shot. Then again in typical Boeing corporate boondoggleness, no one on the Boeing staff knew how or even wanted to kill the chickens so they hired a chicken killer. His only job was to grab a live chicken, break its neck, then hand it over to the Boeing employee shooting it to install the harness in preparation for firing. </p><p></p><p>All this dubious rendering was from a man who previously bet his brother he could "land" his biplane into a large oak tree if the brother paid for the crane to retrieve it. This plane landing was a legend in the community before my arrival.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 4017008, member: 44288"] Two brothers in Medicine Lodge, KS were crazy suckers. Each brother tried to "outdo" the other when it came to stunts. That was just their personalities. One brother was relating to me he was assisting in bird strike tests on canopies and cockpit windows at Boeing in Wichita so take this tale with a grain of salt. Maybe a bag of salt. They too had a specially built air cannon but they didn't use frozen then thawed birds, they used live chickens. Their thinking was that the bird would bounce off but the sharp beak hitting was an unknown because the usual procedure was the heads were always cut off of the birds when shot so they decided to use live birds. They had a special harness they made from stiff cardboard to hold the chicken's heads straight. Well, this live bird shooting went on for about a week when a conscientious passerby noticed the carnage and the fact they were using live birds. It was brought to the attention of the higher ups that Boeing was murdering chickens with their planes which really caused an uproar. In typical Boeing fashion, memos were produced, meetings held, and it was determined to kill the chickens before shooting them since they already had the neck harness it didn't matter if the chicken was alive or dead when shot. Then again in typical Boeing corporate boondoggleness, no one on the Boeing staff knew how or even wanted to kill the chickens so they hired a chicken killer. His only job was to grab a live chicken, break its neck, then hand it over to the Boeing employee shooting it to install the harness in preparation for firing. All this dubious rendering was from a man who previously bet his brother he could "land" his biplane into a large oak tree if the brother paid for the crane to retrieve it. This plane landing was a legend in the community before my arrival. [/QUOTE]
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