[modeleng] You can't keep a good chicken down!!!!!!


I had to laff at this one!!!

 

    > > > > > >Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
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    > > > > > >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.
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    > > > > > >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.
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    > > > > > >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.
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    > > > > > >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:
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    > > > > > >"Defrost the chicken."




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