Engineers at Roll 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.
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 shot 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 engineers for suggestions.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
Lp
Marjan