[meteorite-list] Fwd: Fwd: Chicken gun

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 22:26:25 -0500
Message-ID: <0AA59C97475F4D2EBB13036EA387CAEF_at_ATARIENGINE2>

Dear Mythswappers,

I smell Techno-Urban Legend here.

Read:
http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp
and
http://home.xnet.com/~warinner/chickens.html

Catapoultry?
The Chicken Ingestion Test?
The Rooster Booster?

The Chicken Cannon has been around since 1972.,
and the story of the dumb British (American, French,
Russian, Australian, Brazilian) engineers since 1986
(at least).


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Fwd: Chicken gun


> Absolutely true, but it was Rolls Royce engineers in the UK that
> developed the gun, and an unnamed US aeroengine manufacturer that made
> the boo-boo!
>
> Jay
> The Spaceguard Centre
>
> On 05/10/2012 16:43, cdtucson at cox.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Chicken Gun
>>>
>>> Too funny not to share! Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist!
>>>
>>> Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4
>>> pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets
>>> and the space shuttle, all 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, and a gun was sent to the British 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 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 --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Defrost the chicken." (True Story)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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