Tomo Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 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 bird strikes -- the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl -- in order 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 Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken." Tomo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Nice one mw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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