Speed camera catches a Tornado

[Vipers]

Don't know if this has been posted before, just sent it from my son, looks interesting.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-sn...

[crazy about cars]

Vipers said:

Don't know if this has been posted before, just sent it from my son, looks interesting.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-sn...

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[Famous Graham]

Load of cobblers.

[tmk2]

The Dutch don't use Tornado's and the Sidewinder is a air to air infra red missile

[GTIR]

It's a load of pollocks.

Seen it many times and many times someone posts a link as to the total bks it is.

[Davel]

Pity he didn't fire the sidewinder then.

[Famous Graham]

tmk2 said:

The Dutch don't use Tornado's and the Sidewinder is a air to air infra red missile

Because they were the least believable points

[Carsie]

C'mon you lot lighten up!

Very funny Vipers -thanks for that- I couldn't stop laughing

[Tango13]

I think i've posted it before but many years back Performance Bike magazine were speed testing a bike with a hand held police radar at Bruntingthorpe when a pair of A-10s started to practice target runs on the bike. So out of interest the Journalists pointed the hand held radar at the A-10s to see how fast they were.

The ECM suite on the A-10s completly zonked the radar set and it took several minutes of turning off and on to get it working again.

[williamp]

fantastic! I'm back in the 90s...



Oh, dont forget the new speed camera database where you can check if you have been caught or not...

http://www.i-database.co.uk/

[MikeGTi]

williamp said:

Things

....anyone ever hear about the Tornado pilots on the M6 with no headlights and NVGs.......

[Eric Mc]

tmk2 said:

The Dutch don't use Tornado's and the Sidewinder is a air to air infra red missile

Could have been a Dutch exchange pilot. And the Tornado F3 did carry air to air missiles - including Sidewinders.

It's still a load of old tosh though.

[tontoro]

Eric Mc said:

Could have been a Dutch exchange pilot. And the Tornado F3 did carry air to air missiles - including Sidewinders.

It's still a load of old tosh though.

I think the point is they wouldn't be firing a sidewinder at a ground based radar target

[fatboy69]

I know its a laod of bks but it's still very funny.

[TTwiggy]

Reminds me of the old joke that went (roughly)

A Royal Navy destroyer was engaged in night time exercies, when the radar operator informed the Officer Of The Watch that an unkown vessel was on a collision course with them. The OOTW radios the vessel, and the exchange went as follows:

OOTW: HMS xxx HMS xxx, calling unknown vessel bearing xx.x by xx.x. Please be aware that you are on a collision course with us. Suggest you alter heading to xx.x

Unknown Vessel: Negative HMS xxx, suggest you alter course to xx.x

OOTW: I must insist that you alter course to xx.x

Unknown vessel: Negative. I must insist that you alter course to xx.x

OOTW: Unknown vessel, be aware that we are a fully armed Type 42 destroyer, set on heading xx.x. I insist you alter course to xx.x

Unknown vessel: Be aware that we are a lighthouse... Suggest you alter course to xx.x

[TorqueVR]

Last time I heard that it was an American carrier!

[highflyer]

TorqueVR yes it was an American aircraft carrier and the script is 10 times better

[TTwiggy]

highflyer said:

TorqueVR yes it was an American aircraft carrier and the script is 10 times better

Sorry - it was a cut-down version. Jeez, tough crowd in here...

[anonymous-user]

MikeGTi said:

....anyone ever hear about the Tornado pilots on the M6 with no headlights and NVGs.......

Is that like Chinook crews doing the same on the M3?
No comment.

[Project C]

on the "coming up" bit on Top Gear it looked like someone in a jet doing the TG lap.