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. Now the RAF Centre of ...

Royal Air Force pilots could be able to enjoy a Tunnock’s tea cake at 30,000ft after a 60-year myth they explode was busted. The Scottish snack was said to be a favourite of nuclear bomber pilots ...

Sixty years ago, Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights after they exploded in a cockpit. They left a sticky mess over the airmen, their instruments and the cockpit's canopy. The ...

Well, the RAF now thinks it is definitely the former... 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 ...

Tunnock’s tea cakes have been cleared to be taken on board RAF planes after a 60-year-old myth they explode was debunked. The snack was said to be banned from RAF flights in 1965 after one ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Scientists have carried out tests to see if it is safe to fly with a Tunnock’s Teacake, 60 years after they were banned by the RAF.

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 ...

Popular Scottish snack was prohibited by Air Force in 1965 after they ‘exploded’ in the cockpit during a training mission ...

Tunnox Tea Cake covered the windscreen and the flight controls - proving a sticky flight back. Tunnock's Tea Cakes fit-to-fly with RAF. Picture: Alamy That's until the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine ...