Rocket Scientist

[brianhabby]

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 shot 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.
You're going to love this.....
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."

Doubt it's a true story but funny nonetheless

regards

Brian

 

[Bm101]

Reminds me of the old joke floating about on the internet :

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ACTUAL transcript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10-10-95.

Americans: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."

Canadians: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision."

Americans: "This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."

Canadians: "No, I say again, you divert YOUR course."

Americans: "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. THAT'S ONE-FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP."

Canadians: "This is a lighthouse. Your call."

 

[novocaine]

in the states it's the other way round.
not true but still a fun story.
true bit, RR do have a chicken gun, it's for testing bird strike on engines though, why RR would be testing windshields is beyond me, they make engines, not planes.

heard the same story about testing train screens with help from aviation testers.

oh and heres the actual thing for anyone interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAc7wab-l4

 

[novocaine]

this is my favorite (and true) of these types of story. an article from 1961 new scientist.
starts bottom left of the page, about accles and pollock tubing and an american boast of making the worlds smallest tube, only to receive it back in the post a week later with another tube fitted inside it.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TWq ... be&f=false

 

[NazNomad]

Mythbusters also did this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQ2oZtVNpg