Chickens
Listen. I know most of you don’t come here for stuff about ostriches or ostrich recipes or (yesterday) their nutritional value, let alone to read about chickens. But this account, which has been making the rounds of the net (my apologies if you’ve seen it), I felt was important to share. Tomorrow I will tell you about a checking account that pays high interest. But today: a chicken account.
My thanks to Feathers, the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, from whence this account apparently originated:
“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 the FAA’s chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer’s chair, broke an instrument panel 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.’”
Tomorrow: A Checking Account that Pays High Interest
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