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From: Glenn Joyner <infohead@airmail.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:39:05 -0600
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:53:45 -0500
Subject: Tastes Like Chicken...
Something from the other side of engineering practicality...
Subject: chicken
Author: Susan Turner at CorpSoftDallas
Date: 9/19/96 6:35 PM
To: Jettsetters
In a recent issue of "Meat and Poultry" magazine, editors
quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California
Poultry Industry Federation, telling this story:
It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique
device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The
device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's
windshield at approximately the speed at which the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the
carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird
during flight. The British were very interested in this device
and wanted to test a windshield on a brand-new speedy
locomotive they've been developing.
They borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken,
and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went
through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel, and
embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British
were stunned and asked the FAA to check the test to see whether
everything had been done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
"Use a thawed chicken."
Sometimes even the facts are difficult to understand.
God bless
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