Hi JIM.

06-Jul-03 14:02:00, JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to ALL


 JH> Hello, ALL.


 JH> (Incidentally, that is similar to how they test door and window
 JH> shutter assemblies for impact resistance to windborne debris under
 JH> the building codes for south Florida and other coastal hurricaine
 JH> zones-

This is also how the test aircraft for collisions with birds...
they buy frozen chickens for the purpose of ammunution

 JH> they have a compressed air canon setup, and fire an actual
 JH> piece of "2x4" lumber of set size and weight to impact the door or
 JH> window at a specified velocity.  The door or shutter may be
 JH> damaged, but it passes if it is not breached.

some company making a very fast train locomotive borrowed the setup, but on
testing their mockup it they discovered that the chicken smashed theought
the windscreen an embedded itself in the rear bulkhead, they asked for help

they got a three word response


  Thaw the chicken.

 -=> Bye <=-

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