NASA builds an air gun. Really.
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probably like the 2x4 launching canons used for tornado and hurricane research, except on steroids. Safety rule #1, stay away from the muzzle
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Yeah many of these impact simulators around, and they reach astonishing FPS speeds indeed.
The ammo they shoot are very often very small.
https://youtu.be/Ez609kf49y8
https://youtu.be/nbkkMKkjx6k
When you have a gun that need a vacuum to fire into as otherwise the projectile would just burn up before impact, then indeed you have a monster gun.
The ammo they shoot are very often very small.
https://youtu.be/Ez609kf49y8
https://youtu.be/nbkkMKkjx6k
When you have a gun that need a vacuum to fire into as otherwise the projectile would just burn up before impact, then indeed you have a monster gun.
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Yup. Used to remanufacture aircraft windows. Customer had cannon to shoot turkeys to simulate bird strikes.
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Interesting. The micrometeorites can be just a few thousandths in diameter on up. I wonder what diameter they would think is truly detrimental to the suits and helmets.
A small enough breach in a suit would not be an "instant" death threat. I'd be surprised that if a suit that was worn for any single, long length of time, or a single suit used for many excursions would NOT be hit by micrometeorites.
The shuttle skins and tiles are full of tiny "hits". All you have to do is look close enough. Maybe this is where this thought and the suit testing started from..?
Mike
A small enough breach in a suit would not be an "instant" death threat. I'd be surprised that if a suit that was worn for any single, long length of time, or a single suit used for many excursions would NOT be hit by micrometeorites.
The shuttle skins and tiles are full of tiny "hits". All you have to do is look close enough. Maybe this is where this thought and the suit testing started from..?
Mike
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That's cool, I had not seen that one. There is a similar test apparatus to test commercial airline windshields against birds in flight impacted at speed (600MPH-ish)
It shoots a storebought chicken! This article details a much older version, but I saw something on TV a few years aback that was current. Maybe on Mythbusters?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
It shoots a storebought chicken! This article details a much older version, but I saw something on TV a few years aback that was current. Maybe on Mythbusters?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
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Turkeys or chickens? Funny story, one of the mfg was doing bird strike testing and the material kept failing. The engineers couldn't figure out what was the problem so they contacted the customer and they said,thaw out the chickens.
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I don't remember if it was turkeys or chickens. It was more than 20 years ago. The failure to thaw the bird was, from recollection, bullet train windshield testing in the UK.
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