{"id":3802,"date":"2025-01-17T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:55:18","slug":"the-hilarious-misadventure-of-the-chicken-gun-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/book-reviews-summary\/the-hilarious-misadventure-of-the-chicken-gun-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hilarious Misadventure of the Chicken Gun Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Number of words: 170<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of cars, airliners and military jets all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea was 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 American 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&#8217;s back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow..<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions. Rolls Royce responded with a one- line memo: &#8220;Defrost the chicken first!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of words: 170 Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of cars, airliners and military jets all traveling at maximum velocity. 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