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Jet engines have to survive the Chicken Test, which is to throw a frozen chicken into the engine running at full speed. A drone would have to be made pretty chewy to stop a jet engine.

And then the plane just lands. They can fly with an engine out.




"The most pyrotechnic test of all requires that dynamite charges be strapped to the compressor blades and detonated while the engine is going full blast."




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