The last Man's aeroplane
Let's face it, when the handling pilot called "slow cut" to the flight engineer it was a not an order but a request. If you had p****d him off during the trip there was no way that you were going to land the beast properly. If he thought you deserved it he would glance out of his window and put you down like a cat peeing on velvet.
To sort the men out from the boys Jack Huntingdon would bounce the Hastings back up to 30 or 40 feet and then give control to the poor unfortunate in the other seat telling the flight engineer to give him no help whatsoever.
Those were the days............
Give me the DC10 anyday.