Ah yes, the lovely whrrrump as yet again the compressor started to stall as you were pulling in power on the final stages of your night deck approach
. I just loved the float fit above the cockpit level which necessitated flying with no doors over water. This made it a delight to fly off Iceland in the winter during the Cod War - the electrically heated gloves and socks we had were great until they failed 20 minutes into a patrol. Definitely no soggy boxers in those days. I remember one army exchange officer who had plenty of time on the Scout, but very little on the Wasp, flying the 845 Squadron Wasp from the Rusty B, but he forgot to press the manoeuvre button on the cyclic which disengaged the autopilot - it was one of the more interesting and amusing Wasp take-offs I saw
. The solid droop stops were also ideally designed for landing on a rolling deck if one pushed down through the negative pitch detent too quickly
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