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FROM ROLLS ROYCE STAFF MAGAZINE
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story...

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."

The old ones are the best

The version I heard was with British engineers testing the screen of the original high speed train

Tony C wrote:The old ones are the best

The version I heard was with British engineers testing the screen of the original high speed train

That was the version I heard too

NASA spent 5years and $14M developing a biro that would work in a zero G environment.



The Russians took a pencil!

ChrisL wrote:NASA spent 5years and $14M developing a biro that would work in a zero G environment.

The Russians took a pencil!

Unfortunately that's another internet untruth. You can't use a pencil because tiny bits of graphite break off & float about in zero g, sooner or later they find their way into the electronics where, being conductive, they cause untold trouble.

(Sorry )

Fury1630 wrote:

ChrisL wrote:NASA spent 5years and $14M developing a biro that would work in a zero G environment.

The Russians took a pencil!

Unfortunately that's another internet untruth. You can't use a pencil because tiny bits of graphite break off & float about in zero g, sooner or later they find their way into the electronics where, being conductive, they cause untold trouble.

(Sorry )

That wouldn't stop the Russians taking a pencil

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story