Fascinating insight into those days - thanks, Bof!
I was in shorts back then, but I distinctly remember seeing the crashed aircraft compound at RAF Weston Zoyland absolutely stuffed with bits of pranged training aircraft. A chap I once knew told me that when he was a Meatbox QFI in Yorkshire, one student crashed into his own room in the Officers' Mess killing himself and destroying all his possessions. At least it saved the Effects Officer from having to do much, they all said!
Mind you, we probably lost more aeroplanes in any one month back then than we have serviceable for use on any one day these days......