Windscreen testing
(from http://www.lumpyporridge.com - 10 June 2005)
Testing reinforced aircraft windscreens
Once upon a time, a company who made reinforced windscreens for aircrafts decidedit would be a good idea to conduct a test to find out how strong they were.
The main reason for doing so was to test that they would withstand an impact from
a bird at high velocity.
The procedure of the test was as follows: a dead chicken, bought from a local supermarket, was loaded ready for launch at 900mph towards the glass. However upon being fired, thechicken not only penetrated the supposedly toughened windscreen, but flew right through the entire plane and remerged out the other end!
The onlookers were obviously very disappointed by this. And the company disappeared to rethink their design. In 6 months time when they reappeared ready to repeat the test,
media companies asked what they had changed about their design. A spokesperson for the company said "Oh nothing, just this time we're going to remember and defrost the chicken"! Find other Odds and ends articles
Comments
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a person: Cool! Although I would of defrosted the chicken first(12/04/2006)
- Tom: I can get you a very good goat(08/08/2005)
- Graham: The old ones are still....................the old ones(18/07/2005)
- elverine: Heart warming, funny!!(03/07/2005)
- tom: rubbish(01/07/2005)
- Matt Williams: A bit lame.(24/06/2005)
- bill smith: very funny, great.(13/06/2005)
