Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Yes - I think so. A friend at school had an uncle that had been involved in the bird canon at some point in his career.

Sort-of-frozen turkeys that are cracking your windscreen at the moment

Don't they lob frozen turkeys into engines at rolls royce to check that they can manage sucking in a bird in the air?

Its quite astounding the safety procedures that go into planes. A former colleague used to burn test things for Airbus (and drop test military stuff) which meant analysing the ignition speed, heat, burn-speed and gases from the fire for lots of stuff in planes; not just seats etc but in-flight electronics, staff uniforms, etc. Between that and drop tests his job was basically to set fire to stuff and push stuff from various heights onto the ground. At 21 just having started a boring office job it sounded like a dream.