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The way I heard it, about 12 years ago, it was the Americans who invented the gun and the British who used frozen chickens. Syd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist! > > Scientists at the Canadian Research Facility built a gun specifically to > launch dead chickens at the windshields of Airlines 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. > > NASA 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 NASA 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 backrest in two and embedded itself in the > back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow. > > The horrified Americans sent the Canadian Research Facility the > disastrous results of the experiment, along with the design of the > windshield and asked the Canadian scientists for suggestions. > > The Canadian Research Facility responded with a one-line memo: . . . . > "Defrost the chicken." > > >========================================================================= ===== >To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > >. > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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