Talk:Chicken gun

Contradiction

This article contradicts itself giving two differing details of "first uses". Anyone know which should be deleted? --bodnotbod (talk) 14:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The reference provided to support the RAE Farnborough 1961 first use (It's a Bird, It's a Plane... It's a Bird Striking a Plane) does not actually do so. It states that "NRC's Flight Impact Simulator Facility, located next to the Ottawa airport, featured a 10-inch gun, modeled after a smaller British bird gun built in 1961 by the Royal Aeronautical Establishment." This does not in any way denote that the RAE gun was the first design of its kind, only that it was the design basis for a later gun constructed by NRC at a date which is not expressly stated but is implied to be 1967.

Solid information on first use seems to be quite difficult to come by. One source which I found (an Aerospace Engineering article written in March 2000) credits the US Air Force with devising the concept at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA and lists first use as 14 Sep 1972. (This is obviously incorrect.)

Given the relative paucity of information available, I propose the following changes:

1- The entire section entitled "The British connection" be removed, and the link contained within it preserved as an External Reference.

2- The paragraph which begins "The chicken gun was first used... " be removed from the "Pop Culture" section (where it clearly does not belong), re-located into its own section entitled "Origins" (or similar) and altered to read "The chicken gun is believed to have first been used... " with a note that this information is unverified.

Thraddax (talk) 14:09, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Humphrey Jungle (talk) 17:03, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I changed the First Used to just Uses (couldn't think of a better tittle) since I can find no documentation that clearly states the first use. I've also moved the S-3 reference to this area since it seemed out of place in the opening paragraph. Slow Polk 3:47, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:24, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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The first chicken gun, built in 1942, being fired at a glass panel

• ... that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun (early example pictured), in order to simulate bird strikes? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20130622080034/http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/bird_plane.html
  • ALT1:... that the first chicken gun (pictured) was built in 1942 by the US Civil Aeronautics Administration in order to test the resistance of aircraft windshields to bird strikes? Source: Morse, A. L. (July 1943). "Bird-proof windshields". Flying Magazine. pp. 40–42 (https://books.google.com/books?id=a73U-LVtMckC&pg=PA40)
  • ALT2:... that a chicken gun (early example pictured) is capable of propelling poultry at over 400 miles per hour (640 km/h) in order to simulate bird strikes as part of aircraft safety testing? Source: Morse, A. L. (July 1943). "Bird-proof windshields". Flying Magazine. pp. 40–42 (https://books.google.com/books?id=a73U-LVtMckC&pg=PA40)

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• Comment: Image not at all required, but I feel it would be quite a striking addition to the Main Page! Caption tweakable depending on the hook.

Improved to Good Article status by Firefly (talk). Self-nominated at 12:43, 23 May 2021 (UTC).

• Length, date, and ref verified; no sign of copyright violation (Earwig's tool turns up this page, but it was pretty clearly copied from the lead section of this article, the text of which predates that page). QPQ not required in this instance, as this is only Firefly's second DYK nomination. I think the first hook works best, as the phrase "chicken gun" and the definition thereof are attention-getting enough, without the need for further factoids. A. Parrot (talk) 20:10, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

@Memexd 189.217.210.207 (talk) 00:30, 17 February 2024 (UTC)