Please enlighten me - how would you carry out the "Dams Raid" at 60 ft at night against a defended target whilst showing lights - in the light of current "Health and Safety" legislation?
Are you seriously comparing flying an old man to Benson with the Dambusters raids? In this day and age any such raid would be carried out using smart bombs.
Okay what would you do if the weather wasn't suitable to fly the sortie? Keep postponing the visit until it was suitable whilst keeping up a lot of valuable assets and people to facilitate one visit on standby?
The RAF in which I spent 31 years of my life was an RAF that was a "can do" Service where you looked for ways to do the job
Please don't presume that the RAF of today doesn't have a can do attitude as you insult those on operations today in Afghanistan.