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Jul 11, 2003 6 Replies
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Technicians 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 was 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 hit 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 a one-line memo:


"Defrost the chicken."


LOL (I'd love to think it was true)...

Actually, the machine they had at RR when I worked there briefly (for MoD) actually launched them into the engines.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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It's great - they come out neatly sliced AND with a crispy coating.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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as long as you like crispy chicken flash fried (or should that be fired) in Aviation Fuel.......would probably pluck it at the same time as well!

JonW D90

Ironic really... This is travelling around another group where NASA lent it to the British!!!

Urban myths again!

On or around Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:30:03 +0100, Moving Vision enlightened us thusly:

[chicken-gun]

the old ones are the best ones.

but I tend to think it must have happened somewhere.

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