The Chicken Gun

The true story of the Chicken Gun. Too funny not to
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Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist!

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch
standard 4 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 back
rest 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
their experiment, along with the designs of the windshield
and begged the U.S. Scientists for suggestions.

NASA responded with a one-line memo —

Defrost the chicken. (True story!)