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How about taking him through an LCL or the merits of a 350 foot or 700 foot Codar plant?
Oddly there are any number of novels with far more precise info than discussed here. Patrick Robinson's , as mentored by Sir Sandy Woodward, for one.
Digressing, what the uninitiated would consider secret is the info in Eight Lives Down by Major Chris Foster. It is an absolute page turner and faster paced than a novel. There is some artistic licence as no one would remember conversations with the accuracy with which Chris writes.