Bird Gun

sancho proudfoot · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

British engineers have developed a gun for the purpose of launching dead chickens. It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshield of the new generation of high-speed trains at that vehicle's maximum traveling velocity.

The idea being, that it would simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl, and therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough to endure high-speed bird strikes.

NASA scientists, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test the gun out on the windshield of the Space Shuttle. However, upon the firing of the gun, the scientists watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the pliot's backrest in two, and embedded itself into the back wall of the cabin.

Horrified, the scientists sent the results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, to Britain and asked the railway engineers for any suggestions.

The engineers sent back a one sentence response: "Thaw the chicken."

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