RAF caught in speed trap?????

[andersonec]

Typical RAF reply..........

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Andy

 

[Cowboy _Builder]

Amusing but not true .... I first saw this about 4 years ago .... http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

 

[Mike.C]

Amusing but not true .... I first saw this about 4 years ago .... http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

Snap

Cheers

Mike

 

[andersonec]

Guy's, there's a lot of hints in the story which point to it being a wind-up.... :roll:

Andy

 

[Gary Morris]

I don't care if it's true or not, I can imagine it happening, but I don't get out a lot.

 

[Tinbasher]

On the M6 in Cumbria as the road passes through the Tebay Gorge you can occasionally catch a jet fighter in your rear view mirror as they fly up the valley below the road.

 

[MickCheese]

Still a good story though.

Mick

 

[Jonzjob]

I love that one, but one of the glaring bits is that it would have had to have been a very powerful 'hair-drier' to have been picked up as far away as the North Sea.

There was an incident on the Fosse Way not far from Little Rissington, the old R.A.F. basic jet training airfield, where a young trainee Jet Provost driver decided to do a mock attack on a car. He dived at it and shot across the top at about 30 feet up. He was not popular when the driver had got his car out of the ditch and reported the attack!!

 

[andersonec]

I love that one, but one of the glaring bits is that it would have had to have been a very powerful 'hair-drier' to have been picked up as far away as the North Sea.

There was an incident on the Fosse Way not far from Little Rissington, the old R.A.F. basic jet training airfield, where a young trainee Jet Provost driver decided to do a mock attack on a car. He dived at it and shot across the top at about 30 feet up. He was not popular when the driver had got his car out of the ditch and reported the attack!!

Remember back in the days when Britain led the world in jet plane production and some crazy pilots who used to do tricks like flying under bridges which spanned the Thames and scared the public witless, wouldn't happen today though, as would flying up the motorway low enough to be clocked by a speed camera. One other mistake in the story is that a speed camera although sometimes called a 'Radar Camera' doesn't work on radar and would not register on a planes radar detection system.
We were shifting a couple of hangars for the RAF many years ago when they had Lightnings and when one of the technicians was asked about checks etc his reply was "if it isn't leaking it isn't full", we tried to get a ride in one but it never happened.
I live in Lincolnshire surrounded by RAF and once asked a fighter pilot if his plane was quick, his reply,,,, "better than sex"

Andy

 

[Jonzjob]

One of the things about radar detectors is that they can detect a radar signal at about double the distance that the radar tramsmitter can detect its own signal. The reason is that the transmitter transmits the signal and it has to travel to the tatget and then be reflected back to the receiver . The radar signal has to travel both to and from whereas the detector, your detector for instance, it only has to travel from the transmitter to the dector.

So you can detect the radar signal at a longer range than the tranny can. I reckon that if you aimed one at a military aircraft flying over you at low altitude it would pick up your signal. What it would do with it :shock: who knows???