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> a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
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> 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
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> 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
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> along with the designs of the windshield and begged the
> British scientists for suggestions.
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