The following is an excerpt from Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach. The chicken gun has a sixty-foot barrel, putting it solidly in the class of an artillery piece. While a four ...

Times-Union readers want to know: A friend sent me a "true story" from Meat and Poultry magazine that said that the Air Force uses this super cannon to hurl a chicken at airplane windshields to test ...

On the very day when more poultry is consumed in the United States than at any other time in the year, fun-loving Wendell Burns shared a wonderful story about “The Chicken Gun.” What makes the tale ...