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Haven’t really ‘googled’ this story, but I’d like to think how incredibly funny this would’ve been if it were 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. 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 out to the American engineers.
The Chicken Gun at Rolls Royce
When the gun was fired, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken hurled out o 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 some suggestions and explanations.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo;
“Defrost the chicken!”
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