Did they remember to defrost the chicken first?
Caroline
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> Subject: [canals-list] Rocket Scientist
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> Hi, I don't know if this is true or not but i thought it may amuse some of
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> Sometimes it DOES take 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 travelling
> at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of
> collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
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> > 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 hurledout 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.
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> > 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.
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> > You're going to love this......
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> > Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
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> > "Defrost the chicken!"
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