Jon and Anya
Registered User
Scientists at Rolls Royce have built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at windshields of airliners and military jets, all travelling at maximum at maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent problem of "birdstrike"during flight, to test the strength of windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and asked if it would be possible to borrow the gun to test the strength of the windshields they intended to use on there new high speed trains. Arrangements were made and the gun shipped over to the states.
When the gun was fired the US engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the gun, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the back off the engineers seat, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified US engineers sent Rolls Royce the disasterous results of the test along with the designs of their winshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
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"defrost the chicken"
I thought it was funny anyway
The idea is to simulate the frequent problem of "birdstrike"during flight, to test the strength of windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and asked if it would be possible to borrow the gun to test the strength of the windshields they intended to use on there new high speed trains. Arrangements were made and the gun shipped over to the states.
When the gun was fired the US engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the gun, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the back off the engineers seat, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified US engineers sent Rolls Royce the disasterous results of the test along with the designs of their winshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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"defrost the chicken"
I thought it was funny anyway