Scientists 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 watched in
shock 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. The horrified
engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of 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."
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 watched in
shock 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. The horrified
engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of 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."
