here's one for you boys who like to slam the brits
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2002 2:26 pm
How not to do Product Development:
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch 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 backrest 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 the experiment, along with
the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch 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 backrest 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 the experiment, along with
the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."