The following was sent to me from my Uncle who retired from NASA.
Bill.

Subject: NASA TEST



Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!
(true story)

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."


Clinton Lee
Program Master Schedules - Lead
Boeing Phantom Works
Huntington Beach* Calif.