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Friday, May 16, 2025 |
Testing Windshields  
Date: Sent Thursday, March 26, 1998
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Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist:
Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space
shuttle, ail traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is 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. But 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, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cab.
Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for
suggestions.
NASA's response was just one sentence, "Thaw the chicken."
Received from Jerard Muszik.
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