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by titzer 1938 days ago
They froze the turkeys to make them easier to fire out of their pneumatic cannon at several hundred miles per hour. (I saw this on a documentary about the 777 on TV, and I can't find the clips on YouTube).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3XDkIKT0E

The compressor blades hardly seem to notice. They are shot out of the rear of the engine as a pink mist.

Birds do stop engines. You just need to fly through enough them. Flight 1549 lost both engines while turning Canadian geese into deli slices.

Obligatory "Canada Geese", not "Canadian Geese" comment.

I'm curious: do we know how many geese it takes to take out an engine?