New measures to combat the speeding driver

[bennylaird]

It's just getting harder to speed these days, might have to slow down?

[Auld Bassoon]

No worries mate,

You and your quad turbocharged, 16 cylinder, 8 litre, SuziFukmasawakihon will leave'em for dead...

[bsrlee]

Makes me think of a mate's story, from back when 'radar detectors' were legal.

He was booting along at a very respectable speed on a Loooong straight bit of highway when his 'detector' started going bananas. He quickle started looking around, not another car in sight, not even a decent sized shrub to hide behind, nada. Next thing he knows, an F-111 shoots past at about telephone pole height, just about sucks him up off the road, and continues down the road following every bump & dip.

He claims he didn 't soil himself because everything was trying to climb back inside. But he was a bit late for his next appointment.:eek:

[bennylaird]

Heard a story about 2 Pommy Wallopers using a RADAR gun on the east coast. It kept playing up so they eventually switched off but in the meantime and RAF aircraft had mistaken it for a fire control radar lock on and had only just managed to override an automatic launch of a RADAR seeking missile.

Sounds a bit of a long story to me though.

[Greg Q]

...And this is where I relate the story of someone flying a Citation jet down a Georgia back road at thirty or so feet through a Sate police radar trap. 1978. Intentionally, of course. And yes, it was fun.

[bennylaird]

So he didn't give you a Citation as you already had one?

My best low level run was in the DOA F28 between the hills on a wingtip up near Omeo. We had spotted smoke so went down for a look. Should have seen the face on the bushwalker, who was boiling a billy, as we went overhead at about 200ft.

[Iain]

In the early days of radar my brother got nabbed for in excess of 200mph on his Vespa, the police conceded the unit may have been faulty........and gave him a warning

[bennylaird]

He must have had his head down on the Vespa but how did he manage to get the Kwacka Z1 motor to fit?

[Greg Q]

So he didn't give you a Citation as you already had one?

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Oh, he did. Earlier, in the Hertz Oldsmobuick on the way to the airport. I think I blew his mirrored Ray-Bans off. Just wish I had had something with 50 more decibels:eek: :eek:

**For those who are not familiar, a Citation is a small utility plane, about the slowest jet in the skies-certified for birdstrikes from the rear. Quiet, though.

[bennylaird]

I remember the first time I was buzzed by a low level F18. Saw the shadow but didn't react in time to brace. Must have jumped 10 feet and then couldn't hear for ages.

[Greg Q]

LOL. Yeah, it hurts, don't it? Mine was an F-4 in the weeds at the speed of heat, scared me witless. That noise gets right down into your soul.

[bennylaird]

Can't even wash the Reg Grundies out, too deep a stain!

[Greg Q]

Given how often it happens, there must be no sweeter sight to a fighter pilot than the back of some poor clown's head when he's aimed at him going Mach .999.

The first hint you have of imminent death is the sound of the air molecules panicking and trying to get out of the way, then you get compressed, then your brain runs out of your nose, and your pants get that....that...well, you know. Then you shake your trembling fist at him, and he's already two miles and ten thousand feet away, grinning. Assholes.

[bennylaird]

Not sure how much truth is in the story but heard that Geoff Trappet buzzed the Latrobe Valley field but passed over a chook farm in the process killing most of the hens?

[Greg Q]

We used to get blamed for every farming catastrophe in my home county-hens, minks, geese. I still maintain that they were spontaneous mass-suicide events. Kinda like lemmings, only without that long treck to the sea. Who wants to go to the sea when there's an airshow on?:eek: