Chook safety
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From: UK
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.
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.
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From: uk
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?
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?
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From: Norfolk
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.
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From: Perth - Western Australia
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.
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.
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From: steady
I wonder if they would continuously flap their wings or instinctively attempt gliding...
This really calls for some practical trials.
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, it promises to be great fun for the whole family!
This really calls for some practical trials.
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, it promises to be great fun for the whole family!
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From: Netherlands
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
Now i stumble into 84 acronyms for RTP.
Rapid thermal processing?
SLB
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From: AGL
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.
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.