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Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)


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.











You're going to love this......

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:







"Defrost the chicken."

druddle

ROTFLMAO

Dream Weaver

Leslie

PMSL

Les

IWatkins

Another Rolls Royce story.

An american jet engine company were doing some work with Rolls Royce and for the work very very small holes needed to be drilled in a component.

The americans sent over a really, really small drill bit to Rolls Royce saying that their top guys had worked on it and it was the smallest drill bit that could possibly be made.

Rolls Royce sent it back with a hole drilled down the centre of it.

DaveD

iTrader: (2)

Good story.

Out of interest, the cannons used by Rolls-Royce are for firing into jet engines, to simulate single or multiple bird-strike on take off. This is a test which the engine has to pass for the CAA to authorise it's use on passenger carrying aircraft.

The cannons use compressed air and fire ducks rather than chickens, and are fired feet-first. The ducks are specially bred, and are x-rayed before firing (apparently they like to eat stones!).

This is an amazing test to watch - the birds just get vapourised by the fan, and come out the back pretty-well diced.

fast bloke

straight into the cooking pot that Dave is holding behind the engine

SJ_Skyline

Last time I heard this story it was British Rail....


But still bloody funny

RB5-Black

that's an expensive way to make mince

hail-hail

Chicken Mince mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

dsmith

more like chicken puree.....

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Dont know whether its an Urban Myth but apparently a person got te Duck/Chicken treatment at British Aerospace having walked in front of a jet engine, anybody know the facts about this ?

Marin

iTrader: (1)

I've seen pictures of a US Navy person getting sucked into a jet engine - probably on rotten.com I think. Not a pretty sight and you don't walk away fom it either!

Shark

I heard this before, but it was NASA that designed it and sent it to the UK

David

DaveD

iTrader: (2)

J4CKO, I think your story is very unlikely!! The cannons are set reasonably close to the engine, and if you were to walk between them and the engine while it was running at max thrust, you'd end up going in only one direction - along with the ducks!!

The big civil engines shift huge amounts of air, and even walking 200 yards away from the inlet, you can feel a fair breeze!

I believe the guy on the aircraft carrier survived his ordeal, albeit with a few broken limbs. It appears the sudden blockage in the intake caused the engine to surge, which must have spat him back out.

sempers

There's also the time when the chaps at rolls loaded the gun, went to lunch, came back and did the test....

Pitty the poor moggie that was settling down to a free lunch....

Gridlock Mikey

Now where the hell is student bloke, you want the man with the facts, he's the one who should be commenting. Where you at dude?

Mikey

P1Fanatic

That is fookin mint!



Simon.