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05-15-2003, 12:33 PM
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Pro Libertate
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Sometimes it DOES take a rocket Scientist
Allegedly True
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields 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 windshields and so prevent catastrophic accidents. American engineers heard about the gun and wanted to use it to test the strength of the windshields on 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 horrified as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, 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, like an arrow from a bow. The shocked Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the design 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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05-15-2003, 12:59 PM
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Yeah, thanks I just realised it should be in humour. Hopefully some kind mod'll move it for me.. Sorry
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05-15-2003, 04:07 PM
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I love it. I've heard it before, but it was americans that built the gun and sent it to british engineers. This can be seen in the use of high-speed trains. America doesn't have any trains that travel fast enough to have trouble of this sort, but europe has plenty of high-speed bullet trains.
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05-16-2003, 06:12 AM
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Psycho
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While the frozen chicken story is almost
certainly apocryphal, jet engine testing does indeed include making sure that the engine can survive bird intake. The testers are known in the industry as "chicken chuckers." Well, at least that's what Grumman called 'em back in the day. |
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05-23-2003, 07:26 AM
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Über-Rookie
Location: No longer, D.C
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urban legend or not, I have seen one of these guns.. they are funny..
although the amount of feathers spread across the area are rather disturbing.. This was at an airforce base testing center..  still funny seeing a cannon meant specifically to make a chicken fly.
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05-23-2003, 05:32 PM
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Boom... crunch. I'm sure its an urban legend, but I do believe the french could be that stupid. When we blew up their embassy in Tripoli, they actually believed it was an accident...
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05-23-2003, 06:23 PM
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Über-Rookie
Location: No longer, D.C
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teflonian, the place I visited usually just bought frozen chickens similar to the ones in the stores so usually no feathers, no heads, and no innards.. but the mass is about the same, so not a big difference there.
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