NASA stuff

[John Ferrell]

I first heard this one in the early 1970's in an Airplane Flight Instructor's Seminar conducted by the FAA. The way I heard it was that a major manufacturer was destroying canopies and could not get one through certification testing. The reason was that a new bean counter had decided that the chicken budget was too high and they would start using frozen chickens... 

True or not it is certainly worthy of retelling!

John Ferrell    
http://DixieNC.US

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: J.Oddino 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:00 PM
  Subject: Fw: NASA stuff


  I thought the airplane drivers on this list might like this as much as I did.
  Jim
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Moretec 
  To: Adrian Wong/EL ; 'Jim Oddino' 
  Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 1:24 PM
  Subject: NASA stuff



  Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist...

        Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 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 backrest 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 US scientists for suggestions.



   You're going to love this...  NASA responded with a one-line memo 





          "Defrost the chicken."






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