Exploding teacakes cleared for RAF flight

[Uberhaus]

No one wants their nuclear capable bomber to get pranged by a confection.  Spiffingly, the boffins have scientifically proven that Tunnock's teacakes are incapable of knackering your crate.  Wizard!

Now the boffins just need to figure out how to overcome the interference that's bringing down all aircraft over Windscale.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo

The story goes that 60 years ago, Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights after a cockpit marshmallow explosion.

The chocolate-covered treats were apparently all the rage, eaten by nuclear bomber crewmen on training sorties at the height of the Cold War.

But in the summer of 1965, a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped teacakes above their instrument panels.

When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch the iconic Scottish treat erupted - leaving a sticky mess over the airmen, the instruments and cockpit canopy.

[W8taminute]

Leaving your teacakes on the dashboard of your car whilst driving down the highway is one thing, but to leave them on the dashboard of your nuclear bomber is another.