You are mixing up real testing and stupid stories. The real testing is unfrozen chickens. The stupid story is that NASA loaned their air gun to the stupid British who needed to be told to thaw the chicken. I worked at RAE Bedford, we had an indoor air gun, in 115 Building, for cockpit testing and an outdoor one for more damaging tests, over near ‘The Domestic Site’. The ARA in Bedford had one. Hunting Engineering had one (In The Bovril, if any Hunting alumni read this). That’s all within ten miles of where I lived, and only the ones I know about. We did sometimes fire frozen chickens to break the canopies out of the rig when testing was complete, if they were still intact. So much easier than cutting them up to remove them. Nobody loans someone an air gun, they buy the few parts required and build their own. I could make one in a week, once the compressor, pipe, reservoir and fittings arrived.
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