JTO,
I think you are right and I was wrong. My sincere and unreserved apologies. This getting old is a right swine. By the way, my abbreviation was for 'old farts', not 'old f***wits' - that's not a term I'd use for aircrew, unless I was severely provoked (come to think of it, I did use it once on an RN Shar pilot who cost us four days of technical investigations before admitting that his drop tank hadn't 'just fallen off' but had been mistakenly jettisoned.)
I'd just repeat my professional admiration for the way 1(F) got things together and got down south when they did. In Invincible, the RAF aircrew with 801 were similarly excellent.
Best regards as ever to the very, very many people whose memories are better than mine.
Engines