[modeleng] Fw: You can't keep a good chicken down!!!!!! O/T

As a follow up to this O/T joke, it does have a railway relevance unknown to me 
until this morning. The mate who sent the mail below was at the railway 
technical school in Derby when this happened!!

Dave.


Subject: Re: You can't keep a good chicken down!!!!!!


David,

You are so right, except that it was not Rolls Royce, but The Railway Technical 
Centre who perfected the machine for testing HST windscreens. But they DID sell 
it to AMTRAK and they DID forget to defrost the chickens!

Alan
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  I had to laff at this one!!!

   

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




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