It has emerged that the crew of a Nimrod used a teapot to block a hatch gap in their plane after a mid-air mechanical fault.
An RAF Kinloss spokeswoman said there was a malfunction with a hatch from which sonar buoys are thrown during search and rescue missions.
The spokeswoman said: “There was a minor malfunction with the hatch cover and the teapot would have been used to make it more comfortable for the crew.
A teapot! These guys are on a state of the art (well, for the 1970s) electronic warfare platform, and they have a teapot. An aluminium one at that (see, I told you it was state of the art).