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#1 Rick

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Posted 30 April 2003 - 11:17 AM

Scientists at Roll 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."

#2 Richard H

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Posted 09 May 2003 - 04:00 PM

Hehe :D I like that one.

I've seen some of the vids of bird strike sims (shown on channel 5 - crash test dummies etc). Quite amazing.

Another cool experiment was when a fighter jet was flown into a concrete block at max velocity with it's afterburners on. The jet literally disappeared as it hit, got totally shredded!

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Posted 10 May 2003 - 03:09 AM

All this breaking and making stuff go bang is really not that much different than when we were kids and knocked down our block structures we had built. It's a bit more sophisticated. But lighting matches etc is all the same when you come right down to it. Only now it is a hell of a lot more fun.:cool:

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Posted 10 May 2003 - 03:15 AM

You need to imagine the hillbilly family on the Simpsons to really get this. Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillys would work very nicely too.

Whats the last thing a red neck sez right before he dies?
Hey everybody, watch this!:rolleyes:




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