mclovin
10-01-2012, 09:38 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."
>
>
> (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."
>