Template:Did you know nominations/Chicken gun
- 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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Chicken gun
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)
