psbarham
03-02-2005, 10:57 PM
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
Scientists at Rolls-Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets , all
travelling at maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with
airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields
of their new high speed trains.
Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the
American engineers.
When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the
shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console,snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with
the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for
suggestions.
You're going to love this......
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
Scientists at Rolls-Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets , all
travelling at maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with
airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields
of their new high speed trains.
Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the
American engineers.
When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the
shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console,snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with
the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for
suggestions.
You're going to love this......
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."