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QUOTE: Originally posted by mustanggt Train travel was disrupted briefly in South Wales when a giant inflatable Ronald McDonald got away from a local McDonald's and blew onto the train tracks near the town of Newport. The 25-foot-high clown eventually blew off the tracks and was still on the loose at press time. i can only imagine this one.....
QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098 You have to see this: The US FAA has a device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. They point this thing at the windshield of the aircraft and shoot a dead chicken at about the speed the aircraft normally flies at it. If the windshield doesn't break, it's likely to survive a real collision with a bird during flight. The British had recently built a new locomotive that could pull a train faster than any before it. They were not sure that its windshield was strong enough so they borrowed the testing device from the FAA, reset it to approximate the maximum speed of the locomotive, loaded in the dead chicken, and fired. The bird went through the windshield, broke the engineer's chair, and made a major dent in the back wall of the engine cab. They were quite surprised with this result, so they asked the FAA to check the test to see if very thing was done correctly. The FAA checked everything and suggested that they might want to repeat the test using a thawed chicken.
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QUOTE: By: Lotus098 The FAA checked everything and suggested that they might want to repeat the test using a thawed chicken.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cheese3 I liked the celebrities with trains in their closet article.
QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds Now I don't have a fire, I have a mess to clean up BEFORE she arrives, but I don't have no fire. That don't matter none to the fire department. You can say all you want to over the phone that there ain't no fire, but it don't matter, they've sighted the lure and they're on the way.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds Now I don't have a fire, I have a mess to clean up BEFORE she arrives, but I don't have no fire. That don't matter none to the fire department. You can say all you want to over the phone that there ain't no fire, but it don't matter, they've sighted the lure and they're on the way. Probably since almost all of their calls are medical aides, they do not want to miss any chance of going to a fire (just kidding).[:D] Occasionally, I will go on a ride along. At the station I go to there are two engines and a ladder truck. I usually go on one of the engines. However, one time I went on the truck since it was a tiller and would soon be replaced by a regular truck. I asked them when was the last time they had a fire, and one of the guys replied, "What is a fire?"
QUOTE: Originally posted by george745 lotus- that actually is an urban myth. thawed or cooked doeesn't change much at that speed. Since it is at such a high speed the mass of the chicken breaks the window. In theory if you took the same mass of a softer matter would break the window as long as it didn't explode on impact. I'm a diehard Mythbusters watcher[banghead] andrew
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