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I hope not everyone (but me) has heard this one

Jane


Jane Stewart
Research Center
Foster Pepper & Shefelman
206.447.4400 t
206.447.9700 f
stewj at foster.com

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From: Blair Irvine[SMTP:blair at aragorn.ori.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 1996 2:00PM
To: Jane Stewart; mscott at iattc.ucsd.edu; MMLRWELLS at AOL.COM;
randolfi at ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu; KeithS at aragorn.ori.org;
CABLACK at aragorn.ori.org; RBI at crisis-mgmt.com
Subject: Humor: flying chikens




>In a recent issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from
>"Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry
Federation,
>telling the following story:
>
>It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device
for
>testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a
gun that
>launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the
speed
>the plane flies.
>
>The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass
impact,
>it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
>
>It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test
a
>windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They
>borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
>
>The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's
chair
>and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British
were
>stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything
was done
>correctly.
>
>The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
>Use a thawed chicken.
>
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