Chicken Question

**elcamino** · 01-18-2003, 05:31 PM

Pretend you were flying a real C-5 cargo frame which contained 20,000 chickens.
After takeoff, you climb to altitude and trim for level flight.
Suddenly all the chickens started flying around the cargo compartment at the same time.

Would the C-5 raise in altitude?
Would the C-5 remain at the same altitude?
Would the C-5 loose altitude?

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**DaveKDEN** · 01-18-2003, 05:54 PM

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jan-18-03 AT 06:19PM (EST)[/font][p]Come on Jerry, everyone knows Chickens can't fly. :-lol

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PS; Oh yea, the C-5 would remain at the same altitude.

**Caracal** · 01-18-2003, 05:55 PM

good question, � think I've heard that one before, but I'm not too sure... I'd say it remains at the same altitude

**TheCrazedLog** · 01-18-2003, 05:58 PM

a) Can chickens fly?
b) It would climb, because the chickens are supporting themselves in the air, and thus the plane would be lighter.
c) I noticed your camo uniform...and Im assuming you would have been in the air force...which raises the question...did you fly C-5s and have a bunch of chickens flying around? :D

Anthony

**simaddict** · 01-18-2003, 06:01 PM

I would say that the aircraft would maintain altitude. The lift generated by the chickens for flight would be against the floor of the aircraft (amount of lift equals amount of chickens off the floor) therefore there would not be any change to the a/c weight configuration.

Harry

**Trev** · 01-18-2003, 06:05 PM

It's a bit like the lift question. If you were in a lift in a 100 story building and were coming down, and at about the 50th floor the cable that holds the lift snaps, and all the emergency devices fail, and just as you are about to hit the ground you jump up, would you survice the fall.

Trevor:-)

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**FITZY** · 01-18-2003, 06:27 PM

What about all that the chickens left on the floor of the cargo bay? 20,000 chickens is a lot of chickens which means a lot of chicken.... Well, you know!

Captain_Slarty · 01-18-2003, 06:43 PM

a swiss patent clerk called Albert onced coined a theory of relativity... :-)

mass contained within a mass is inclusive of the total of all masses within.. and the weight (offsetting lift in this case) of the TOTAL mass is relative to the force of gravity acting upon it... and, every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction (Zak Newton this time....)

soooo... it would make no difference to anything..

the only danger is the 'distribution' of the mass within the primary mass as the center of grabity would alter..

providing they dont all fly to one end .. it should remain 'relatively' stable too....

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**horwood** · 01-18-2003, 07:15 PM

If the chickens could fly then surely there would be no change as the downward force of air pressure from the flapping would mean there is no change in weight.