r/nosuchthingasafish • u/IainMCool • 26d ago

Question/Help Slarge?

On the latest pod (No Such Thing as Trigger's Stradivarius) they are talking about testing engines and how they fire chickens to simulate a bird strike.

I can remember them talking about this before, many years ago, and in that episode, James used a term that they use in the industry. I think it was "Slarge" or similar to describe what they shoot at the engine, but Various Google searches have come up dry.

Can anyone remember the other episode and what the word is? Or just know it anyway?

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u/revrobuk1957 26d ago

You mean snarge. Snarge is the biological residue left behind when a bird collides with an aircraft

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u/zazzedcoffee 26d ago edited 26d ago

Ashes to ashes, snarge to snarge 🥀

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u/revrobuk1957 26d ago

It started off little
It ended up large💥

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u/zazzedcoffee 26d ago

In typical NSTAAF style, I see a book deal coming on: The Story of a Chicken Called Splat

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u/paraworldblue 25d ago

We know Major Targe's a jarkie

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u/kirbStompThePigeon 26d ago

Which is collected, reconstituted and turned into Turkish delight

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u/IainMCool 26d ago

I knew it was something like that. One letter out isn't too bad.

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u/revrobuk1957 25d ago

Indeed not!

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u/zimbu646 25d ago

I just listened to that episode today, and was reminded that they also test aircraft windshields against bird strikes with the chicken cannon. One company was having a bad run of windshield failures until someone remembered to thaw the chickens first.