It is Rocket Science

[Chad]

FROM  ROLLS-ROYCE STAFF MAGAZINE *


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 traveling at maximum velocity.

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl

to test the strength of the windshields.

American 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 American engineers.



When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken shot 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 Americans sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.

You're going to love this......

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:

"Defrost the chicken first

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[Techno]

 

The best ones are when you haven't sussed out what's going to be the punchline.
Good one Chad !!
Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

 

[Leman]

Yanks! Don't you  just love 'em.

[sebigboss79]

Yanks! Don't you  just love 'em.

NO! 

[Ithoriel]

http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp

I like the "catapoultry" version ... but then I'm not a cat person

[Hertsblue]

Another "oldie but goodie", mind you I've heard it told both ways....

[Techno]

What ?....Eh ??
They fire the plane at the chicken ?
Not heard that one !
Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

nother oldie but goodie.

By this stage I reckon most of our US members have left.

IanS

[OldenBUA]

By this stage I reckon most of our US members have left.

Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then? 

[Fenton]

Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then?  

So in about a a year it will be ...Welcome to Pendraken , the 10mm specialists providing high quality sculpts to only those living in the Middlesbrough area

[Techno]

Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then? 

Or the Welsh, if Ian has his way. 
Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

Xenophobia is for those damn foreigners..... 

[sebigboss79]

So in about a a year it will be ...Welcome to Pendraken , the 10mm specialists providing high quality sculpts to only those living in the Middlesbrough area

What if I feel Scottish anyways? 



But seriously if you cannot take these jokes you probably ain't registered on the forum anyways. "Leave sanity at the door"   
My take is that all members I know do have this particular sense of humour and enjoy the forum as much as the figures....