Off thread a little but just read an item from Time Magazine 13 August 1956
Gloster replied to Pilot Waterton's blast last week with the countercharge that he had not quit but was fired for his "disinclination to continue the necessary research flight-testing of the Javelin," dismissed his book as a mishmash of "harrowing self-dramatization, sensational slanders, half-truths, recriminations and flaunted betrayals." But Waterton refused to back down. Said he: "I say, appoint an impartial commission to go into the whole matter and look at the records."
About to order the book. Had a poor view of the British aviation industry it seems. See
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...865476,00.html for Time article.