I just enjoyed half an hour wading through a few old
copies of Flight, reading S&L...
Came across this gem:
The sort of engineers we want these days, it says here a few pages ago, are specialists with "the allroundness of the old de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School apprentice, with a feeling for the practical daily problems of making aeroplanes work . . ." All-roundness? Dear sir, we take grave exception to this libellous remark, which is now in the hands of our solicitors, the fattest in the world. Some of us used to spend the lunch-hour at Hatfield asleep inside the cosily confined aft fuselage of the Sea Hornet. If you can find a Sea Hornet aft fuselage (which I have checked very thoroughly is extinct) I'll prove I can still squeeze in there without splitting the beetle-glued seams.