English Dictionary

chicken cannon

名詞

A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts.

日本語の意味

航空機のテストにおいて、機体やエンジンの鳥衝突耐性を評価するために、鳥の死体を発射する装置

The engineers fired the chicken cannon at the fuselage to evaluate how the aircraft would withstand bird strikes.

エンジニアたちは、機体が鳥の衝突にどのように耐えるかを評価するため、鳥の死骸を発射する装置を使って胴体に対して試験を行った。

意味（1）

A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts.

The Air Force has a device known as the chicken cannon. Recently killed chickens are fired, feathers and all, from a converted cannon.

chicken cannons （ plural ）