Top Gun

[grumpy52]

Probably a load of tosh and posted before, but made me chuckle.
A few on here would not have used the overide option, Scottish Traffic Taliban take note .

[Osinjak]

About as old as the internet itself.

[tenpenceshort]

I think that story is so old it predates the discovery of fire.

[jesta1865]

Some of it is true, it was in flight magazine donkeys years back, but I can't find any record of the Dutch using tornados?

[littleredrooster]

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

Disproved many times on here. Why do people not bother to check this ridiculous stuff first?

[Lowtimer]

Sidewinders aren't even air-to-ground missiles.

[mdglen]

And Sidewinders are air to air missiles, so wouldn't be the first choice to engage a ground target. More likely to use an ALARM.

I'll go back outside with my anorak now.

[anonymous-user]

jesta1865 said:

Some of it is true, it was in flight magazine donkeys years back, but I can't find any record of the Dutch using tornados?

What, you mean some of it as in none of it? It's utter bks. What next, dancing hamsters?

[grumpy52]

Lighten up chaps it's only the Internet, none of it is real !

[Johnnytheboy]

I assume they sent the ticket to the car that came over the ridge at the same time.

[Tonsko]

If you insist.

[anonymous-user]

Teks me reet back to when t'internet were all just fields.

[grumpy52]

Not as good as the personal alarm rescue beacon (EPIRB?) That had activated sparking a search , including Nimrod aircraft . It was eventually located in a boat on a low loader on a motorway in the midlands .
Activated when it fell into a water filled bilge , I suspect this was internet Bo##ocks as well .

[grumpy52]

Not as good as the personal alarm rescue beacon (EPIRB?) That had activated sparking a search , including Nimrod aircraft . It was eventually located in a boat on a low loader on a motorway in the midlands .
Activated when it fell into a water filled bilge , I suspect this was internet Bo##ocks as well .

[TheConverted]

grumpy52 said:

Not as good as the personal alarm rescue beacon (EPIRB?) That had activated sparking a search , including Nimrod aircraft . It was eventually located in a boat on a low loader on a motorway in the midlands .
Activated when it fell into a water filled bilge , I suspect this was internet Bo##ocks as well .

i Suspect so, because an Epirb gives its location in almost real (depending on sat coverage) so it would seem unlikely they would send a Search and rescue nimrod to the midlands.

Andy

edit their also registered to the owner so not difficult to find out if its real SAR situation or accidental activation

Edited by TheConverted on Tuesday 2nd September 12:26

[ging84]

Its a true story, also my grandad invented television

[Osinjak]

Still not as good as the lighthouse story:

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

[grumpy52]

Osinjak said:

Still not as good as the lighthouse story:

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

This gets resurrected very frequently in military circles , they love bashing the yanks.

[covboy]

grumpy52 said:

This gets resurrected very frequently in military circles , they love bashing the yanks.

Not quite in the same league, but I used to work with an ex-Navy bloke. who loved to tell the tale about when they had moored up next to a big Yank cruiser with a couple of them leaning over the handrail having a smoke

"What's it like being in the second biggest Navy in the world" one of the Yanks shouted

Without batting an eyelid, the British Jack Tar carried on swabbing the deck and replied with

"Whats it like being in the second best?"

[Osinjak]

grumpy52 said:

This gets resurrected very frequently in military circles , they love bashing the yanks.

Without wishing to be argumentative, I've been in the military for 17 years and I've never heard this story related once. Mind you, the latter half of your sentence is absolutely spot on.