From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Banshee Bird Strikes
Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:12:05 -0400

As a little sidenote, the father of a friend works at the intake
design department of Lockheed. In a conversation with him once, he
talked about a device called "the Rooster Booster" that was used for
intake ingestion/flameout tests. Basically, they spool the jet up to
speed in a lab tunnel and then this device lobs a sixteen pound bird (not
sure whether it's alive, frozen or whatever) into the intake. An F-16
can take this kind of punishment without flaming out.
Alternately, My father, an airman in Viet Nam, saw a firehose
being sprayed through the running engine of an F-4 Phantom. It wouldn't
flame out under those circumstances, but if it sucked down an intact
sheet of water (like that when you splash a bucket on someone), it was
all over. Weird.

Marc