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A "chicken gun" developed by the US CAA and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Corporation is fired at a piece of glass, demonstrating its use in testing aircraft components. |
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| Source | Excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Flying magazine. |
| Author | Photo credit given on page 41 of the issue is simply "Acme". |
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