Withey gets permission to do a practice single engine landing. That suggests obviously that he has been doing the transit on one.
I'm interested in this observation. Why does this lead you to believe it was a single engine transit? Would it not have been normal to bring one engine to idle to specifically perform a practice single engine approach?
I know the Meteor (and Canberra for that matter) were a handful in asymmetric flight, and the 'wrong boot' accounted for a number of losses during the approach and t.o. phase during practice engine failures. Would that not have been a more likely scenario here?
Just wondering.