Smoking - what were the rules?
Presumably, smoking while flying was not an option until the closed cockpit arrived. Thereafter, what were the rules?
This is as a result of a pub conversation, and I volunteered to find out. Here. Which may have been unwise....
While an aircraft was or had recently been refueled, you'd be daft to light up. We were thinking more on the lines of having taken off on a bombing raid over enemy territory in your Mosquito, with lots of petrol and explosives - well today you'd possibly think twice, but on a night like that I'd be smoking all the way there and back.
And what does the RAF say today? OK in a Typhoon unless you're meeting a tanker?