but I reckon that the Sorley would have gotten *someone* to do the calculations regardless. I don't much like journalists bending a story to make it more saleable.
Indeed, had the work been done by some middle ranking RAF officer, or indeed a civilian in the aviation industry, there would have been no story. To me this is reminiscent of the fact that you will NEVER see a programme about the Air Transport Auxiliary without the emphasis being on female pilots, often to the extent of not mentioning the fact that there were any male pilots in the organisation at all. In fact less than 20 % of the ATA's pilots were women. Undoubtedly they did sterling work, but my point is - so did the men, but you will never hear them mentioned.