I fear that no matter what I say, you'll take exception so you may as well get on with it
The only thing I could add is that, should you care to ask any air or ground crew, they would probably tell you that they're just as human as anyone else and are therefore, no more capable of accurately recalling facts from the 1960's than you or I. That's the basic point that I've been trying to emphasise and while you have this almost obsessive compulsion to keep reminding me that I'm not a serviceman, I still don't quite understand what this fact has to do with anything that I've said on this thread or others.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could confine ourselves to information and comments that were actually relevant to the subject being discussed (*cuts to
Brick's next posting where he pastes-up this comment, for supposed ironic effect*)...