Speeding Ticket !

[CoffmanStarter]

Dear all ...

Absolutely brilliant !

RAF speeding ticket (http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=14020&page=1)

Best regards ...

Coff

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Absolutely not the first time we have seen that on here :ok:

[obnoxio f*ckwit]

...and then the airman said "not at my end, Sir"!...

[TheWizard]

SFFP,
This month or year??:E

[jamesdevice]

first known sighting of this story was 1995
Read this

snopes.com: Police Radar Prompts Missile (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp)

[CoffmanStarter]

Sorry chaps if old news ... Just tickled me this afternoon :)

Best regards ...

Coff.

[Tankertrashnav]

I've always thought that being an idle sod, I should have taken up journalism. The way it seems to work is that there is a cardboard box full of about 100 stories (maybe these days it been digitised, but the principle is the same).

As you print the story (coach load of pensioners overturns, rottweiler in horror kiddy attack, police in corruption shock, or whatever) you file it at the back, then work through your stock of stories till it turns up again.

So today - oh look - it's the 'police radar locks onto jet' story. Just check that the RAF still operates the Tornado and off we go!

[Stu666]

I was under the impression that the jamming units on aircraft are used sparingly or as a last resort because their very use announces your presence to someone who might otherwise not have detected you?

[ex-fast-jets]

The "Sidewinder Air-to Ground Missiles" gives you a clue about the knowledge of the person writing this!!

[L J R]

300 mph.....?? What, was he out of fuel after the last engagement, and Bingo profile home?

[SilsoeSid]

Old ones are the best :rolleyes:

How about a new one?

http://guardian.co.uk/Col Gadaffi under protective custody in UK (http://guardian.co.uk/Col Gaddafi under protective custody in UK)

Under the cover of darkness, special forces helicopters have plucked ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi from the Libyan desert 60 km southeast of the city of Sirte and flown him to relative safety.

Straight from a Tom Clancy novel, using the latest stealth MH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, the US special forces snatch team made the rendezvous under a moonless sky, then flew undetected low and fast to a waiting carrier off the Eastern coast of Misrata. Coordinated by surveillance aircraft sitting at high altitude over the South Meditteranean, Gaddafi was transported via Italy, to Prestwick. The weakened ex-Lybian leader is now believed to be under protective custody and under medical supervision somewhere in the UK.

[jamesdevice]

around 20 years ago I had an early - model speed gun detector. It was an american model sensing (from memory) X-band and Ku-band.
Didn't ever work properly in the UK - the police used different frequencies, but it did pick up remote controls for gates/garages, and the electronics around petrol stations!
However one day it went berserk when an aircraft (Tornado I think) passed overhead.
Coincidence?

[ZH875]

However one day it went berserk when an aircraft (Tornado I think) passed overhead.
Coincidence?


No, many military aircraft radar sets transmit on frequencies in the 'X' (now 'I') band, and as your speed detector is a radar reciever, it simply recieved a signal, and went berserk.

Simples

[AGS Man]

On a slightly different note the late great Neil Williams in his book Airborne (ISBN-10:095045432X) described after making a forced landing in a Sopwith Pup, a traffic policeman issued him with a ticket to produce his pilots licence, insurance etc at his local police station.

[Hydromet]

Was surprised one Xmas morning to see the neighbour's automatic garage door continually opening and closing...then I spotted the kid across the road playing with his new remote control car.

[Whenurhappy]

In the late 1970s - early 80s, my late brother was a junior reporter on several papers, including the Lincolnshire Echo, followed by the Sheffield Morning Telegraph and then the Torygraph. He mentioned that the wee small hours were often spent by bored reporters, erm, 'finding' stories about tax collectors being eaten by croccodiles (generally in the Upper Volta - ouch!), dogs completing marathon journies to be reunited with their owners, ferries sinking in Indonesia (along the lines of 'not many dead'). This made a change from reporting on the latest induistrial strife hitting Poverty Rock or yet another story of Vicar/Priest/Scountmaster/ACF instructor getting a little bit too familiar with their charges.

Of course, with t'internet these days, that would never happen, now would it? Absolutely no circular reporting on t'web, is there?

[NutLoose]

What ever happened to the RAF plods speed trap using the captured radar off the Argie Bofors gun set up....... often thought surely you would detect it and simply jam it.....

[Torque Tonight]

So there was this aircraft carrier and a lighthouse....
no, wait a minute....
dammit!

[TEEEJ]

NutLoose,

They should still be in use? From 2008.

http://www.slholidays.co.uk/Images/Article5pic.jpg

Windermere local | Speed radar trained on low-flying jets (http://www.windermerelocal.co.uk/speed-radar-trained-on-low-flying-jets-1.136380?referrerPath=cufc_2_935)

RAF Spadeadam - Skyguard (http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafspadeadam/aboutus/skyguard.cfm)

Some images from 2729 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment showing the captured 35mm Oerlikons in use with the Skyguards.

2729 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78098318910&v=photos)

TJ

[NutLoose]

Wow, over 30 odd years in service, the Argies are certainly getting their money's worth :p

[SilsoeSid]

TT
So there was this aircraft carrier and a lighthouse....
no, wait a minute....

I guess you're thinking of this one :ok:

One of the worst navy accident ever! - YouTube

[TEEEJ]

The US Navy webpage on the Lighthouse Joke.

U.S. Navy: The Lighthouse Joke (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=174)

During the 1990s they had a more extensive webpage on the joke.

TJ

[SilsoeSid]

Did anyone really believe this was true ?
Do lighthouse keepers give a basic or traffic service to warships at full steam in open waters ? :rolleyes:

TJ
Your debunking page is incorrect itself.
*Note: USS Coral Sea (CV 43) was decommissioned and scrapped 2 July 1993.

USS Coral Sea was in fact;
Decommissioned - April 30, 1990
Sold For Scrap - May 7, 1993
Scrapping Completed - August 9, 2000
USS Coral Sea Tribute Site - Significant Dates (http://www.usscoralsea.net/pages/dates.php)

[Tankertrashnav]

Do lighthouse keepers give a basic or traffic service to warships at full steam in open waters ? :rolleyes:



Good point, and in fact all British and Irish lighthouses have been automated for at least 10 years now, so there aren't any keepers to give a service, even if they wanted to.

[NutLoose]

The Russians in their strange wisdom used Nuclear powered unmanned lighthouse with a reactor in each one!!!!!

Then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did it job for some time, but after some time they collapsed too. Mostly as a result of the hunt for the metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by the looters. They didn’t care or maybe even didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. It sounds creepy but they broke into the reactors too causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.

Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses | English Russia (http://englishrussia.com/2009/01/06/abandoned-russian-polar-nuclear-lighthouses/)

[sled dog]

Re speeding ticket : in the latest issue of Motor Sport magazine there is an advert for a De Tomaso Pantera, imported into the UK, complete with a speeding ticket issued in the states...218 mph :sad:

[Whenurhappy]

Nutloose - thesame went for automated Met stations all across the FSU. There are stories of farmers in the Caucasus snuggling up to them at night for the warmth. The IAEA and US Department of Energy spent a huge amount of time and money to recover these - and the buoys/light house reactors lest they fell into teh wrong hands. I beleive that they eventually achieved a 100% sucess rate.

[foldingwings]

Just how old are the hills?

Foldie:\

[jamesdevice]

for a through debunking of the lighthouse story, see snopes.com: Lighthouse and Aircraft Carrier (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp)

Note it dates from 1939 - or earlier


As to the Russian nuclear material - they also had a bunch of radioactive sources which were used for sterilising seeds to kill of bacteria / fungi. A campaign was also carried out to recall all those, but not all were found.
You couldn't make an explosive from them, but theres the real possibility of a dirty bomb

[Dengue_Dude]

The "Sidewinder Air-to Ground Missiles" gives you a clue about the knowledge of the person writing this!!

Wasn't that exactly what happened at Leuchars a few years back - wasn't it from a Phantom. You may of course argue it was ground to ground, but it used to be on a pylon or fuselage station.

Unusual occurrence admittedly, but happened nevertheless. Don't recall the coppers pointing anything at it though.

[TEEEJ]

Over the years the Sidewinder has been adapted for air-to-ground use. A variant was used in combat in Vietnam.

General Electric AGM-87 Focus (http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-87.html)

AGM-87 Focus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-87_Focus)

There was also an anti-radiation variant.

Image link

File:AGM-122.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AGM-122.jpg)

This image link appears to be mis-titled. Unless there was an AIM-9L designation back in 1971?

File:AIM-9L hits tank at China Lake 1947.jpeg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AIM-9L_hits_tank_at_China_Lake_1947.jpeg)

The USAF requested a Sidewinder air-to-surface capability during 2007. In 2009 tests were conducted.

EXCLUSIVE: Raytheon adapts AIM-9X for air-to-ground mission (http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/exclusive-raytheon-adapts-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-missson-335762/)

TJ

[SilsoeSid]

Over the years the Sidewinder has been adapted for air-to-ground use. A variant was used in combat in Vietnam.

By the RAF ?

[ex-fast-jets]

File:AIM-9L hits tank at China Lake 1947.jpeg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like a miss to me!!