The Original White Meat

Nothing especially remarkable in this story about bird/plane collisions, except one particular passage amused me to no end:

Jet engines must now be able to withstand the ingestion of an 8-pound waterfowl without failing (this is tested in the lab by firing a chicken from a cannon at point-blank range).

I think a chicken cannon would be very effective in conventional warfare--or would the enemy cry fowl? (Yes, that's a poultry excuse for a pun...)(doh!)