Gimlet (rocket) clip capable of fitting the internal rocket bays of the F4D Skyray interceptor was also developed. Following a flyoff against the T-214 rocket, which indicated the necessity to modify the rocket motor to reduce the Gimlet's visual signature, the Navy directed the development of a modified, 'hybrid' rocket, using the T-214's tail; this became known as "T-Gimlet". The modified rocket was considered to be suitable for the Navy's purposes; both the original Gimlet and the T-Gimlet were ordered for production, a 5 million dollar USD contract being allotted to start production at the Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot in Arkansas. Despite
Unusually shaped vegetable which Baldrick discovers a turnip shaped like a phallus, giving rise to several jokes throughout the episode. Ben Elton's novel "This Other Eden" is set in a future in which most aspects of life are controlled to conformity, meaning the loss of 'amusingly shaped vegetables', much to the protagonist's annoyance. The giant vegetable competition that features in "". Unusually shaped vegetable An unusually shaped vegetable is a vegetable or fruit that has grown into a shape not in line with its normal body plan. While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often because