"...Everywhere I have been during the preparation of this book I have noticed that, although the surroundings do not look too dissimilar, the atmosphere is very different compared with how it used to be..."
"...If the status quo is maintained it will once more be the serving officers and men who have to pay with their lives for the parsimony of the tax paying public, as they had to in 1940. Must the lessons of history be re-learned yet again?"
These words were written not in the last year or so but in the introduction to a book (Encyclopaedia of the Modern Royal Air Force.) by Tony Gander in 1984.
Overstretch is also mentioned then! I wonder what he would write today
