and also remember the British attitude, we hated change and anything that was new or revolutionary, the old guys with the stiff upper lips claimed to be the oricle and almost droped dead at the proposal of an aircraft without a propeller or a slightly unusual configuration, it was a wonder the mossie made it into production at all......
and no worries les, i was hardly crapping myself was i

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