A chicken gun is a large-diameter, compressed-air cannon used to fire dead chickens at aircraft components to simulate high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft’s flight. (under supervision of animal welfare)
Air Force estimates that planes hit about 3,000 birds every year, causing damages in excess of $50 million and sometimes loss of human life.
The chicken gun was used by the US Federal Aviation Administration for testing the strength of windscreens on airplanes. It launches a dead chicken at a plane’s windscreen at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windscreen doesn’t crack from the carcass impact, it’ll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new high-speed train they’d been developing.
They borrowed FAA’s chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
The ballistic chicken shattered the windscreen, penetrated the engineer’s chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine’s cab.
The British were stunned – & then had to ask a whole bunch of questions of the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
FAA reviewed the test, had one recommendation: “Use a thawed chicken”
Transition: In Mark 10 we have already seen announced and witnessed a change in the ministry of Jesus as the result of the open rejection of Him as Messiah by the religious elite of the day. He has predicted His death, burial and resurrection ch 8,9, and here 10. He’s 6 months out of his betrayal/death and on His way to Jerusalem. And ch 10 is made up of a series of questions…
He’s at that point of no return.
Questions…