When I worked at the Oz CAA I had an ex RAF navigator working for me who had started out on Shackletons and ended up in the Vulcan before of all things becoming an Oz RAAF Talking Traffic Light (ATC).
On his office wall he had a beautiful picture of a Vulcan launching a (I think) Blue Streak nuclear missle. My wife, visiting one day, asked Roger what the picture was - he pointed out that he was keeping the world safe from commies and tree huggers and was launching a nuclear weapon. He didn't tell her it was a 'dummy'.
She flounced out of the office saying - and 'Roger I thought you were a nice person'. It didn't take long for her to get over it as he is (now retired) one of the most urbane and educated 'poms' I have ever met. In fact he used to write aviation fiction for mainly US based mags and was also studying latin when he worked for me - I think because he didn't have enough to do.
A really great guy.
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