I've mentioned it before but James Hamilton-Patterson's Empire of the Clouds is a superb read. I've also laid hands on the bigger copy with lovely colour pictures. James, who was kind enough to review the flying in a storm chapter of my novel, really conveys with passion the era that D Davis gave the talks on. Somewhere, he made an extraordinary statement. It followed the D110 crash at Farnborough.
Words to the effect, Back then there was not the litigious society we have today. If a tragedy happened we were expected to just pick up the pieces of our lives and get on with it.
I suppose years of war made us more pragmatic . . . for a while.