Frozen turkeys (was Re: OT: A&P (was Re: ...))

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> > Oh, what was it they were testing by shooting frozen turkeys out of a
> > canon.  I want to say something on cars...windshields maybe?  I know I
> saw
> > a documentary where they were doing this, seriously.
> 
> Are you, perhaps, talking about the TLC series "MythBusters"?

	Actually, the "chicken cannon" is real.  In order to certify the
windshields of most jets, even the smaller biz jets, they have to shoot the
chickens at them at speeds of several hundred miles per hour in a lab.  So,
someone devised a way to shoot the chickens out of a howitzer at the
windshields on a test bed in the lab.

	The joke was that when they sent instructions to a different test
lab, explaining how to setup the test equipment, the other lab kept smashing
the same windshields that were passing the tests at the first lab.

	Then somebody finally realized what was going wrong, and sent the
message, "No, no!  You have to THAW the chickens first!!!"