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Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist

Posted by Frank Toussaint, Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Wheeling and Rolling Meadows and Motorola .

Posted on 5/17/99 11:27 AM MST



Can someone at NASA tell me if there is any truth to this story:


Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at
the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, 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.

British 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 British engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the
chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof
shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control
console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded
itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a
bow. The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the
U.S. scientists for suggestions.

NASA responded with a one-line memo:
'Thaw the chicken.'


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