As previously stated, a fizzie DM booted up to 70mph makes a weird induction honking noise. This phenomenon had troubled and puzzled me for over thirty years.

Finally while I was watching the discovery channel one evening the penny finally dropped.

I am not a rocket scientist, but I was watching a show about the future of air (and ultimately space) travel and now believe Trobb and I were on the verge of discovering the holy grail of jet propulsion that has, even to this day, eluded the boys getting the big bucks at NASA – “Ram/Scram Jet Technology"

The scram jet is theoretically possible - if you can reach a high enough velocity an engine will start to burn the oxygen and nitrogen in the air and no longer need to be fuelled from its own tank, achieving phenomenal velocities running literally on air!

This fizzie was swallowing so much air and making that honking noise that the air was about to combust independently and the fizzy would then have made the jump to hyper-space/warp-speed and would have left Trobb and me choking in its "popsicle purple" warp signature rather than it gagging in our 2-stroke wake!

History might have been different, a seminal moment might have been reached, a turning point in human history would have occurred, Trobb and I would have become immortalised along with warp drive inventor Zefron Cochrane from Startrek as great pioneers in science.

A passing Vulcan star ship might have picked up the fizzies warp signature and decided to make first contact there and then on the Saintfield Road circa 1977!

Instead of being known as Brian "The Man" Gibson, I might today have achieved legendary status along with the "great bird of the galaxy", Gene Rodenbury himself.

Sadly "Ce la vie"

Thanks to Stevie Kerr (yes, that is the same Stevie Kerr from Flying Fizzies Part One) for supplying the above picture of his former "Popsicle Purple" Yamaha FS1E.

Brian