What is the most British thing ever?

In 2006, a Royal Air Force Nimrod (reconnaissance aircraft) suffered a hatch malfunction. The crew used a teapot to wedge the hatch closed while they completed their mission.

Consider:

• A teapot as standard issue on a military aircraft
• Rather than cause a ghastly fuss and raise any sort of embarrassing alarm, the crew simply wedged the hatch closed
• Mechanical failure - in the UK this provokes resigned eye-rolling, but is secretly welcomed as somehow familiar and expected
• I’d bet there was a heated debate about whether it was preferable to suffer catastrophic depressurization, or be deprived of tea for the remainder of the flight
• Seriously though…a teapot.

RAF repair plane with teapot

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