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RAF lifts ‘60-year ban’ on popular treat after tests find it won’t explode in cockpit
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes pass RAF fit-to-fly test after being banned for 60 years
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes have been deemed fit to fly by the RAF after they were banned from flights 60 years ago.
The Scottish snack was a favourite of airmen to help stave off hunger while flying nuclear bombers on long training missions at the height of the Cold War.
However, they were added to the RAF’s no-fly list in the 1960s after some tea cakes were said to have exploded in a cockpit.
The story goes that during a training mission in 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped tea cakes above their instrument panels.
When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch, the tea cakes blew up, causing pieces of chocolate and marshmallow to hit the windscreen, flight controls and the men’s uniforms.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/tunnock-tea-cakes-pass-raf-200631085.html
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes pass RAF fit-to-fly test after being banned for 60 years
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes have been deemed fit to fly by the RAF after they were banned from flights 60 years ago.
The Scottish snack was a favourite of airmen to help stave off hunger while flying nuclear bombers on long training missions at the height of the Cold War.
However, they were added to the RAF’s no-fly list in the 1960s after some tea cakes were said to have exploded in a cockpit.
The story goes that during a training mission in 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped tea cakes above their instrument panels.
When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch, the tea cakes blew up, causing pieces of chocolate and marshmallow to hit the windscreen, flight controls and the men’s uniforms.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/tunnock-tea-cakes-pass-raf-200631085.html
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