PurplePitot,
Speaking as a Crab who was on loan to the AAC around the time all this started, and speaking also as someone who was able to get the information as supplied by Eden from the other Crabs at CFS(H) - what's your point? Can't say I remember any fiendish Brylcreem-smeared plot to rid the forces of the chicken leg before its due date. Do enlighten us.
Oh yes, and I do remember having to take a Lynx Mk1 bombed-up with 8 (empty) tubes down to the <1 foot hover to get a nose-left turn going. Hat well and truly doffed to any HAS shipmates trying to get that lump onto a heaving deck in anything more than Mr Beaufort's size 5.