Sometimes it does take a Rocket Scientist

[Timo]

Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist... (true story)

Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields and so prevent catastrophic accidents.

American engineers heard about the gun and wanted to use it to test the strength of the windshields on their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers watched horrified as the chicken hurled out of the

barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineers back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow from a bow.

The shocked Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment,along with the design of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.

Rolls Royce responded with a one line memo:

"Defrost the chicken"