Fun fact my mother was a teen in the 1860s and lived on a farm adjacent to the BAC facility where they were assembling and/or testing components and fondly reme

Fun fact my mother was a teen in the 1860s and lived on a farm adjacent to the BAC facility where they were assembling and/or testing components and fondly remembers the time they powered up one of the Olympus engines “and blew out chicken hutch to smithereens and spread parts of it all over the field”. Apparently apologetic staff then helped collect the wreckage and round up the scattered birds (which, as I understand it, were unhurt by the event).