TheOldhamWhisper
1st August 2009, 08:05
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch deadchickens
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 deadchickens
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."