My flying instructor at Church Fenton was a hairy arsed Master Pilot who had been a Meatbox instructor at Driffield. Indeed the aircraft was a death machine. A funeral a week just at Driffield. Not to mention the assymetric problem, there were the dingies that inflated on take off pushing the stick fwd and thus causing the plane to crash. That is why flying suits have a knife (or did) to stab the inflating dinghy. Also there were the instrument take offs that didnt account for acceleration error so there were many holes on the side of the runway - cant remember which side. Truly a real killer plane not helped by the CO at the time encourging pilots to do low level barrel rolls which caused a few fatalities. Thank god I never trained on them. I did my training after they had banned solo spinning and practice turnbacks after a simulated engine failure which had claimed a few lives on JP's.
Gosh how safety has improved since the 50's, 60's.