We all know Worldwide airlines suffer from flocks of birds as aircraft take off and land, that can get sucked into aircraft engines damaging the tribunes inside ... OK

So NASA has developed a high pressure cannon that fires headless chickens at aircraft to test engines and etc.

Here in the UK a leading train builder acquired one of these guns from NASA to test high speed tilting trains. Once set up at the side of the track, engineers fired said chickens at a test train, 3 birds glanced off the windshield, while the 4th smashed through the train window, demolished the CO-driver's chair, and imbedded itself in the driver cab wall behind the train driver. The engineers where baffled and surprised by this, and later contacted NASA for an explanation. NASA obliged them with a good technical reply --- "You Thaw out the chicken first!" :unsure:

I heard this just now on the radio.

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Reminds me of a story I heard about a US Aircraft Carrier (that shall remain nameless) and its first time Captain and an unidentified Vessal.

The radar opperator notifies the Captin "we have a radar contact in front of us" the captain takes the radio as promtly demands the unidentified vessal to start motor and clear the course for the Carrier.

The response is a rather blunt "No."

The Captain, a little taken aback by such a blunt response, chooses to raise the stakes, "this is captin ...., I am ordering you to move!"

Again, the response is a rather blunt, "NO !"

The Captain lets fly " This is the US Aircraft Carrier ...., I am the captain of this ship and am ordering you to move you vessal!"

The response came back, "this is a lighthouse, we arn't going anywhere!"

I read it on a list of stories that usally comes with the Chicken story, that somes includes a distressing version that has an engineers head being taken off, and usally has a link to the The Darwin Awards.

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Crazy, a machine developed to test engines using headless chickens...thats awful There in the U.K-perhaps more Vitam D is needed to help people use time more proficiently. I.M.O. h34r:

ah the chickens are already deceased...sounds kind of funny

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Boeing used to have a facility near Marysville, Washington where they fired dead chickens at the windshields of mock aircraft to aid in the design of their aircraft windshields. Better to test the windshields on the ground than in the air.
Jack