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Why engineers fire chickens at airplane windshields

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In what can only be described as the most disrespectful use of groceries in scientific history, engineers simulate bird strikes by literally yeeting thawed supermarket chickens at commercial jets. It is a highly sophisticated, rigorously documented process that essentially boils down to launching poultry at Mach 1 to see if the glass breaks.

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