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This was emailed to me today; Top this for a speeding ticket. . . .
Two traffic police officers on patrol near North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1, Great North Road.
One of the officers used a hand-held radar device to check the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300 mph.
Their radar gun then suddenly stopped working, and the officers were not able to reset it.
Just then a deafening roar over the tree-tops revealed that the radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the Scottish/English borders, approaching them from the North Sea.
Back at police headquarters, the chief constable fired off a stiff complaint to the RAF Liaison office . . .
Back came the reply in true, laconic, RAF style:
"Thank you for your message, which allows us to complete the file on this incident"
"You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Tornado jet in question, had detected the presence of (and subsequently locked onto) your hostile radar equipment, and had automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which was why it stopped working"
"Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft, had also 'automatically' locked onto your equipment"
"Fortunately the pilot flying the Tornado recognised the situation for what it was, and quickly responded to the missile systems alert status, manging to override the automated defence system, before the missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed"
"Good Day" . . .
Two traffic police officers on patrol near North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1, Great North Road.
One of the officers used a hand-held radar device to check the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300 mph.
Their radar gun then suddenly stopped working, and the officers were not able to reset it.
Just then a deafening roar over the tree-tops revealed that the radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the Scottish/English borders, approaching them from the North Sea.
Back at police headquarters, the chief constable fired off a stiff complaint to the RAF Liaison office . . .
Back came the reply in true, laconic, RAF style:
"Thank you for your message, which allows us to complete the file on this incident"
"You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Tornado jet in question, had detected the presence of (and subsequently locked onto) your hostile radar equipment, and had automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which was why it stopped working"
"Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft, had also 'automatically' locked onto your equipment"
"Fortunately the pilot flying the Tornado recognised the situation for what it was, and quickly responded to the missile systems alert status, manging to override the automated defence system, before the missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed"
"Good Day" . . .
I think the PistonHeads search facility is also an urban myth
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/search.asp?h=0
K
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/search.asp?h=0
K
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