At the risk of duplicating from a previous Heston thread, I found this wonderful site whilst googling:
Collect Air | Woodason Aircraft Models History
On the subject of the Fleet Air Arm show, and quoting entirely from memory, but which I can still get corroborated....tickets were required for the show and were duly printed by Supermarine. They then had to be quickly transported to Heston, and Tommy Thompson was tasked with getting them there. He took a Seafire, but had nowhere to put them but on his seat, and thus the trip was made with his sitting on them with his head slightly above the open canopy!
I have to write to him anyway and will have it confirmed (or not), but it's still a nice story!
brgds
Alan