First fired 50 years ago this fall, the chicken gun at Arnold has been used to test glass canopies, windshields and other materials for some of the most famous U.S. military aircraft, including ...

Understanding turkey vultures. The chicken gun is most of what I have to say about guns. If you’re wanting to read about the science of military armaments, this is not the book you’re wanting to read.

Engineers at Wright-Patterson and the AEDC developed the idea for the chicken gun. The mechanism was constructed using scrap hardware, About.com reports, using information from military sources.

So they built this gun – it’s got a 40-foot barrel --- and used heavily-compressed air to shoot a dead chicken at speeds ... do great work in bird-proofing military and public aircraft alike.

She is never obvious. For instance, she mentions only one weapon in the entire book on military research: a gun that shoots dead chickens at airplanes to test aircraft for the ability to withstand ...