Funny!

In the early days of developing the Trent jet engine, engineers at Rolls-Royce in Derby built a gun which fired a chicken carcass into turbine blades to assess the damage caused by bird strike.


Engineers at Boeing heard about this and asked if it would also work for testing windscreens. Rolls-Royce thought it would. So Boeing bought a chicken gun from Rolls-Royce, shipped it to the USA and tried it out. The result was disastrous.


The chicken carcass flew straight through the cockpit windscreen, smashed instruments on the flight deck, smashed through the partition into the toilet, crashed through to the galley and ended up in the passenger cabin.


Somewhat distraught, Boeing contacted Rolls-Royce and asked what they would recommend. The engineers back at Rolls-Royce pondered Boeing’s problem and came up with a three-word reply: “Defrost the chicken”.
 
docw1 said:
In the early days of developing the Trent jet engine, engineers at Rolls-Royce in Derby built a gun which fired a chicken carcass into turbine blades to assess the damage caused by bird strike.


Engineers at Boeing heard about this and asked if it would also work for testing windscreens. Rolls-Royce thought it would. So Boeing bought a chicken gun from Rolls-Royce, shipped it to the USA and tried it out. The result was disastrous.


The chicken carcass flew straight through the cockpit windscreen, smashed instruments on the flight deck, smashed through the partition into the toilet, crashed through to the galley and ended up in the passenger cabin.


Somewhat distraught, Boeing contacted Rolls-Royce and asked what they would recommend. The engineers back at Rolls-Royce pondered Boeing’s problem and came up with a three-word reply: “Defrost the chicken”.
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Truth is stranger than fiction.


The rest of the story.
 
Uncle Phil said:
I knew an old roofer who said the real problem was Ralph Nader.
When he came up with all these 'safety' devices the gene pool never got to be thinned out by Darwin's Law ... ;)
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Have you seen all the road markings on UK/EU roads? Looks like a modern art supply truck blew up on them. How 'bout our local attempts at 'fixing' our speeder problem.......lower the speed limit? We are currently on a road trip. Mostly along HWY77 between Ft Worth and Corpus Christie. On the way down, traffic slowed to a crawl several times....the reason?....one dipstick rolling along at 35mph each time....this with a 70 mph speed limit. Cell phones were involved each time.
Cold, hard fact is that if you really care for others as well as yourself, little of this is necessary.
 
docw1 said:
Somewhat distraught, Boeing contacted Rolls-Royce and asked what they would recommend. The engineers back at Rolls-Royce pondered Boeing’s problem and came up with a three-word reply: “Defrost the chicken”.
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This probably explains why things have not been going too well at Boeing.
 
Fawlty said:
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That reminds me of a moment one day, after we moved into our new acreage home. The difference is that my photo is for real, nothing doctored. At the bottom of the photo of our 20 lb Maine Coon kitty.

Up top is our 60" FrameTV, and we're watching some animal TV show. Look REALLY CLOSE at what our Maine Coon is intrigued with

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