Barry Cadwgan scribed:

True story I heard about chicken cannon... (From memory...)

They were testing the windshield design of a new high speed train in the
UK.. among other things for birdstrike.. so they borrowed the use of a
chicken cannon.. 

First time they tried it.. the chook went through the windshield and the
bulkhead behind it... they had forgotten to unfreeze the chook!

Yep, I've heard this story myself, _many_ times over @_@
It's usually followed up by the story about how after they thought they
fixed it and weren't going to break any more canopies, another one broke.
Apparently a cat had smelled the chicken and crawled into the cannon while
nobody was looking...

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