Would they make it?

[51twinspinner 0]

Over a few beers the other week a couple guys from the DZ were discussing whether chickens put out at 12,000' would end up O.K. or whether they would doof in. Any thoughts on the subject would be welcome. Hypothetically or course.

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[fudd 0]

Chickens would maybe work. Hamburgers definitly not

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[darkwing 4]

Ask Les Nessman (that's an obscure reference).

I'm betting that chickens wouldn't make it, and I hope nobody actuallyt tries it.

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My Skydiving History

[CrazyIvan 0]

I'd like to see a chicken PLFing

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[andy2 0]

definitely die of shock during the freefall. Have you ever been around chickens? There used to be a free range chicken farm near my house, and I swear you could run and stomp up to one and they would freak out, one flipped over and died of shock when we did that. We were 12.

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[nightjumps 1]

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..."or whether they would doof in. Any thoughts on the subject would be welcome.

They would doof.

The ancestor of modern chickens, the wild red jungle fowl, wasn't a great flier, but he could get around. Enter us. We took the wild red jungle fowl and started selectively breeding to produce bigger pectoralis muscles and eventually we got a bird which can't get off the ground and winds up in a bucket..

The entire poultry family (chickens, turkeys, guineas, etc,) have adapted to living on the ground. Their beaks are better adapted to pecking off the ground, their feet to walking instead of perching, and their wings are smaller than other birds their size.

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[174fps 1]

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Ask Les Nessman (that's an obscure reference).

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[Brisco 0]

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Ask Les Nessman (that's an obscure reference).

WKRP

That turkey show was a classic! I still laugh thinking about it!

Brisco

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

[skybytch 259]

The DZO at my old dz wondered the very same thing one day many years ago. The details are best left fuzzy but it ended up with one chicken in a gunny sack at altitude. The chicken didn't fly, and actually made quite a mess. The SPCA (society for prevention of cruelty to animals) found out about it. He got in a bunch of trouble.

Made for a great story though.

[robskydiv 0]

"Over a few beers?" You guys must have had a few 12 packs.

[airtwardo 6]

Would they be fried or baked?

The fried variety may go faster...grease!

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[hookitt 0]

I'm sure that if you toss a pig out at 3000 it won't survive. The chicken? Well perhaps out of a balloon but letting it out at 100 MPH would prolly break it severly.

I think andy2 hit the answer right on the nose.

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[slayer21016 2]

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The DZO at my old dz wondered the very same thing one day many years ago. The details are best left fuzzy but it ended up with one chicken in a gunny sack at altitude. The chicken didn't fly, and actually made quite a mess. The SPCA (society for prevention of cruelty to animals) found out about it. He got in a bunch of trouble.

Made for a great story though.

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ROFLOL wish i could have gotten that on film.

[racer42 0]

Oh the humanity!! First the Hindenburg and now this. Who knew turkeys couldn't fly?? Poor Mr. Carlson. He tried so hard.

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[ryoder 1,393]

It's been done.
The following is from memory many years ago in Indiana.

Age: unknown, probably less than one year.
Sex: unknown, too many feathers to tell.
Number of jumps: 1
Time in sport: 1 day
Cause of death: impact
Description:

Deceased exited aircraft at 2000 over the peas.
After initially flapping wings, deceased folded up
wings and made no further effort to flap until impact.
An AAD and a reserve may have prevented this fatality.

System: none
Main: none
Reserve: none
AAD: none
RSL: none

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[caseyusa 0]

I wonder what a chicken's WING LOAD is without a system...

Let's assume the chicken is Cornish. No offense to Corns, but it's the only fact i could find.

"A Cornish hen weighs between 1 and 1.1 kg at live weight "(source http://www.chicken.ab.ca/diduknow_trivia.html)

My girlfriend(absolute wonder-genius ) tells me 1kg is 2.2lbs.

So on the Dropzone.com Wing Load calculator (http://www.dropzone.com/safety/tools/calculator_wing_load.shtml)

2.2 pounds of chicken.. zero pounds of gear and zero sq feet of canopy... yields...

WOW!!

A wing load of "Infinity."

Check it yourself.. isn't that interesting. And from the above report, I guess its bad to have an Infinity WingLoad. But a hell of a cool nickname wouldn't you say?

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[lurch 0]

It's been done.
The following is from memory many years ago in Indiana.

Age: unknown, probably less than one year.
Sex: unknown, too many feathers to tell.
Number of jumps: 1
Time in sport: 1 day
Cause of death: impact
Description:

Deceased exited aircraft at 2000 over the peas.
After initially flapping wings, deceased folded up
wings and made no further effort to flap until impact.
An AAD and a reserve may have prevented this fatality.

System: none
Main: none
Reserve: none
AAD: none
RSL: none

This has got to be LMAO the funniest thing I've seen here yet. My guts hurt.

Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.

[newshooter12 0]

Wouldn't that just make for Ground Chicken when they doof in?
matt

[jose 0]

MMhrrmmmm....I wonder if there are any chickens loose in Kamloops.......

......*seriously ponders the usage of his own rooster in the backyard*......

[Nutz 0]

"As God as my witness - I thought turkeys could fly." As said by Mr Carlson after they got to the ground. That episode is hilarious but I like the "monkey on my foot" episode better.

[fungi3001 0]

from reading all this i was wondering if you could get an animal to skydive, obviosly would have to be SL - how bout using a chimp or somthing like that cos they,re meant to be good at that sort a stuff. theres a film , i forgot what its called, but tey taught a chimp to ride a half pipe (skateboard) and apparewntly it learnt alot faster than a human cos they dont have the inbuilt fear.

[wildblue 4]

Chickens... probably not.

Now cats on the other hand....
... the new extreme sport of "Cat Passing" is taking off!!

it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

[Katzeye 0]

C'mon, we all know cats are only good for juggling (obscure reference here)...


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Is a chicken omelette redundant?