Folks,
And for a little more:
Who remembers the CAGS on the -125 --- The Central Attention Getting System
I kid you not, that was the name, wot a wunnerful piece of English.
The -125 was the only aeroplane I have flown that weather-cocked out of wind in a crosswind - very disconcerting for pilots who normally flew real aeroplanes.
The Vipers had a disconcerting habit of developing an unrecoverable stall and rundown to a very low RPM, RR said impossible, can't happen, but it did, they took a lot of convincing that those colonials knew anything worth knowing.
The main gear up and down locks were a Heath Robinson nightmare (same bloke designed the electrics) but, Hey! No Problemo! we'll just put a long block of hardwood under a fairing down the guts, and extend a flap hinge either side with a little ski on it, to make a gear-up a non-event.
As DCA proved at Avalon, that didn't work, either.
Tootle pip!!