What's with the chicken? ( Archived) (10)

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)


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.

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 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 bow.

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.


Rolls Royce responded with the following one-line memo:

























"Defrost the chicken."

Thanks for the laugh this morning

Yeah..


Well... it was long-dead and even frozen, so...

You stole that from me! I posted it a couple of weeks ago

hmmm...perhaps a chicken wasn't the shrewdest choice for such an experiment. After all a chicken is hardly the most adventurous of birds altitude-wise.

OMG ... poor little chicken ... they should have tried

As a vegetarian, I protest this very funny thread in the strongest of terms.