[meteorite-list] Fwd: Fwd: Chicken gun

From: Rob Lenssen <rlenssen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:07:34 +0200
Message-ID: <000001cda45a$6d3193f0$4794bbd0$_at_planet.nl>

Sounds like THE standard joke, in this field of the aerospace technology to
me.

As a young aerospace stress engineer in 1993 or 1994, I once prepared a test
spec. for a bird impact test on an aircraft's windshield. The chicken had to
hit at the worst case location, at worst case conditions etc.

Our supplier PPG at Huntsville, Alabama conducted the test. They told me
that when a test failed, the standard joke was to blame a certain guy who
conducted the tests for forgetting to defrost the chicken :-)

All the best,
Rob L
www.AsteroidChippings.com


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Onderwerp: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Fwd: Chicken gun


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> Chicken Gun
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> Too funny not to share! Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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 Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment,
along with the designs of the windshield and begged the U.S. scientists for
suggestions.
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> NASA responded with a one-line memo --
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> "Defrost the chicken." (True Story)
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Received on Sun 07 Oct 2012 03:07:34 AM PDT