Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist
Posted: 10 Feb 2010, 13:50
Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windscreens of airliners and military jets, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windscreens.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windcreens 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 watched in shock as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof screen, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineers back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.
The horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windscreen and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
.
.
.
.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Defrost the chicken!!!!!
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windcreens 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 watched in shock as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof screen, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineers back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.
The horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windscreen and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
.
.
.
.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Defrost the chicken!!!!!
