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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Poppy Dave on September 27, 2012, 11:03:47 AM
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TRUE STORY FROM Rolls Royce's OWN MAGAZINE Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!
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 a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."
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:eek :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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British cool.
American ...
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This is not to far from the truth.
China did something similar to this when they built the latest hi-speed (300kph plus) train between two of their largest cities etc.........took 30 minutes travel time off the previous one.
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I hope there isn’t any terrorists reading this… they’ll start taking out plains and trains with frozen chooks :eek
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They did the frozen chook/ canon thing on Mythbusters a while back. It is amazing to see what a frozen projectile can do.
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