There's more to chickens than just eggs and white meat. It took a while for scientists to work out how to simulate a bird flying into an aircraft engine at high speed. Firing a chicken carcass into an engine has been a regular feature of aircraft safety tests since the 1940s, 'chicken guns' are specialised compressed-air cannons used to hurl chicken carcasses into jet engines and windscreens to ensure they can withstand bird strikes once airborne. The first known chicken gun was introduced in 1942 and could launch chickens at400 miles per hour (640km/h), Modern models versions have modular barrels to use various sizes of bird.
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