greenlitemaxthr wrote;
....went straight to the Aero Club for a debrief - we drank champagne, which was customary in those days, got ****-faced, talked crap and enjoyed each others company...
...or, if it was too early for the aero club the police club across the road ( somebody somehow always had a key).All done on an honour system with usually far more $$ left than had been consumed.
The ‘got ****-faced, talked crap and enjoyed each others company‘ sums up those halcyon days.