RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:
The resulting mushroom cloud caused panic amongst the locals and they never found a piece of jet bigger than a postage stamp....
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Reminds me of the time me and my mate had to clear a Squadron of helicopters which had just returned from a Air display. The rest of the squadron had gone on weekend leave so we were left to our own devices
Our trawl from the helicopters (Wessex 5's) included Thuderflashes, Flares, Smoke bombs and other interesting stuff. We sneaked the stuff back to our barracks and decided it would be useful in getting rid of some rats in a stream seperating the barracks from the airfield itself. We found the rat holes and poured the contents of the various pyrotechnics down the holes and in true cartoon tradition we left a trail of gunpowder (or something close to it
) . We then lit this and it looked great as the flames and smoke raced towards the packed rat holes. Then there was an almighty bang and half the bank of the stream went showering up into the air in a billowing cloud of smoke
Certainly solved the rat problem but then we heard sirens and saw blue lights in the distance. The only place to go was under a small bridge in the stream witha couple of rat survivors
We lay there for what seemed like hours until MOD Plod and the firecrews gave up the case. We found out later that Air Traffic Control had a plane on approach and had thought it had crashed. By the time they raised the alarm the plane appeared through the cloud of smoke. That should have put us off playing with stuff like that but it didn't, then that is another story (and quite a dirty one at that)
