speeding ticket with a difference

Originally Posted by Jinxy43

As well as paper planes they have the new super Wooden stick very effective against all types of animals, but not really the bee knees against planes.

They are using a training missile called Asraam, basically a new and improved sidewinder, better gubbings on the inside, apparantly.

True, the facts of wether it is true or not are pointless as it made me chuckle. And it is an age old story flying round the Raf, of which I have heard many a-time from drunken Aircrew


Gonna be in Bromley this weekend Flamin Squirrel as it ma bro's wedding.


Peace out

I thought Asraam got cancelled. Obviously not

Nah the mod thought about it, been then realised it was better suited to british economy to keep the more expensive asraam and amraam than to re-wire the jets, and buy bulk from the yanks

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Sidewinder is an IR guided air to air missile.

It's also a legless reptile of the snake variety

Annnnyway...

[yorkie_chris]

Yup...

They named the missile after the snake, because the missile seeks heat and the first guidance systems weren't too clever, every time it needed to change course it would tend to overcorrect, then overcorrect back the other way, so it would zigzag towards its target, looking a lot like a snake in its movement.

(useless trivia for the day)

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

It's also a legless reptile of the snake variety

Annnnyway...

Or AIM-9(B onwards) as it's otherwise known.

Damn it, watched too many episodes of 'Dogfights'.

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

It's also a limbless reptile of the snake variety

corrected myself, was bugging me, should know better

[yorkie_chris]

Zoologists are wierd.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Students are weird.

Corrected for you!

One would have to be to go out with an engineer, I'm not ashamed of it....

or someone who worked/works with the missile