Dicko
22-05-03, 09:08 AM
> Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
> chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets , all
> traveling 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
> Americans 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."
>
> chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets , all
> traveling 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
> Americans 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."
>