Chook safety

[beserk]

If you through a chook out the door at 2,000' will or did it land safely?

[Wageslave]

We usually post in English here.

Could you translate please?

[212man]

He's talking Australian English - it's a chicken.

[PDR1]

And he means "throw".

PDR

[BOBAKAT]

How old the chicken ?

[PDR1]

What breed?

PDR

[twinstar_ca]

Just remember that Les Nesman thought turkeys could fly... just saying!! ;)

[Fareastdriver]

We used to have our rations parachuted in at our forward base in Borneo. Ghurkhas like to have their food delivered 'on the hoof' as it were so chickens were in little cages on the pallet.

One day one 'snatched' as it came out of the back of a Beverley and the load broke up in the air. Half the chickens went ballistic with the hard stuff but a cage broke open and three or four catapulted into the air at about 400 ft..

Their flying technique could be described as messy but they didn't hit the ground too hard and had the privilege of staring at the inside of a sack until their necks were wrung.

[krypton_john]

A Penciled Hamburg will be fine, but never ever try this with a Plymouth Rock.

I believe the Booted Bantam is currently awaiting certification.

[Bull at a Gate]

Don't know about dropping chooks from a height, but my silver spangled hamburgs can fly over a 1.5 metre fence when startled.

[HEDP]

Live, frozen, de-frosted, roasted or boiled?

[Wageslave]

English?
If you through????? If you went through? Looked through? That ain't English.
out the door????? Out of the door perhaps. That ain't English
Chook. That ain't English.
will or did it land safely ain't English either. A question beginning in "if" requires "would" to introduce the proposed result, "will or did" is a completely novel and nonsensical construction I doubt anyone has ever seen before.

Even the Aussies don't mangle the language to that extent.

If you through!!!! My God, I'd never have believed that if I hadn't seen it.

What has this to do with Professional Pilots I wonder?

[Freewheel]

If you through a chook out the door at 2,000' will or did it land safely?


Not if it was frozen.

[John Eacott]

Depends if you won it in the Friday night chook raffle instead of the meat tray?

[G0ULI]

Factory farmed chooks (or chickens) are poorly equipped to fly and will probably perish on hitting the ground. Free range chickens or those closer in evolutionary terms to their wild ancestors are capable of surprisingly long flights, perhaps as high as thirty feet up a tree to escape predators. They would survive the fall.

[onetrack]

I think this young bloke is trying to settle an argument with a school mate. :)

The answer is ...

1. Chooks can't fly all that well. They can fly a few dozen metres at best - if their wings haven't clipped, as many chook owners do to them. Their wings are clipped to stop them from flying over fences, which they can do.

2. GOULI is right - they'd hit the ground at about 120-150kmh, and you'd be picking up a dead chook, fer sure. :)

[PDR1]

Free range chickens or those closer in evolutionary terms to their wild ancestors are capable of surprisingly long flights, perhaps as high as thirty feet up a tree to escape predators. They would survive the fall.

That would depend on the nature of the release/jettison envelope, surely? I mean if jettisoned from a balloon or helicopter at the high hover I would probably agree, and similarly if released from a Tiger Moth at 15kts over the top of a lazy loop.

But if released from a fast transport (150kts?) or fast jet (300kts?) I suspect an untrained chook would be unlikely to focus sufficiently on keeping the wings and tail furled until the speed dropped and would almost certainly suffer severe structural damage to the wings and empenage, rendering a survivable landing rather unlikely. Indeed at the upper end of this speed envelope it is likely that the wings would be ripped off by the slipstream resulting in a chook which is not on deceased, but would also raise a much lower scrap purchase value to RTP organisations like Missouri Fried Chicken.

PDR

[whoknows idont]

I wonder if they would continuously flap their wings or instinctively attempt gliding...
This really calls for some practical trials. :suspect:


Edit: Apparently the annual Live Turkey Drop seems to go way back in Yellville, Arkansas.
As long as no one gets hit by a paralyzed turkey projectile (https://youtu.be/j-FqvGC9UCs?t=22s), it promises to be great fun for the whole family (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIRvUzUgFI)!

[andytug]

Judging by ours, flapping. Definitely.

[Fareastdriver]

Our ones flapped half-a-dozen times. fell, flapped, fell, flapped, and by pure luck, having not had much use out of their ground proximity sensors, touched down hard and rolled over.

[Self loading bear]

I managed to understand the whole thread. Even the starting question was unravelled by myself.
Now i stumble into 84 acronyms for RTP.
Rapid thermal processing?

SLB

[TylerMonkey]

Chooks can autorotate quite well . . . .

( but RPM is critical in the oven. )

:eek:

[EBCAU]

Authenticity not guaranteed:
There is a story that in the early days of missionary aviation the pilots in PNG had a system of launching hens out of fixed wing aircraft to stock the villages below. To overcome the damage that might occur with wings meeting slipstream the hens were in paper bags. Once ejected they struggled and ripped open the bag and fluttered safely to the ground.

Authenticity guaranteed:
In more recent times this was discussed by some mates in a bush camp in the same country. It was decided a trial was the way to check it out. A chook was bought from the local village and taken up in a Bell 206L, and launched, sans paper bag. To their surprise the chook plummeted to its death. The wonder then was if it was just that particular chook that had failed?
However, research was quickly curtailed. The PC management of that particular energy project heard about the incident and some castigations, with threats of dismissal, were administered to the 'researchers'. I guess we wont know until someone else on these pages continues the research for us.