I found this
not particularly pertinent but still interesting. A lot of initial flutter work was done by Izzy Herzberg back in the early days at GAF - as far as I am aware he still is on faculty at RMIT so that probably is some of the link up to the dissertation.
Evidently somebody still wants one..
I'm a bit out of touch with the Type now but, in previous days, those operators who used them for operations sensibly matched to the Type's strengths, couldn't get enough of them.
Very much a case of horses for courses was the Nomad.