The quaintness of some of 't Bungling Baron's folk was always amusing...
At one VC10/TriStar JTIDS design meeting, both Marshall Aerospace (for the TriStar) and BWoS (for the VC10) gave quick installation presentations.
The MA chap was in a smart suit and delivered a very slick talk; his slides looked straight out of the Aircrew Manual, but with the new display and control panel already incorporated. Most impressive.
Then came the BWoS chap. He looked like some mad old professor, with a shirt whose frayed collar was already displaying an impressive dihedral angle. It wouldn't have surprised me if he had slide rule in his top pocket. His slides looked like yellowing parchment drawings of 'Ye Olde Vickerf Funbuf' with some items hastily added in crayon.... He then told us that the drawings had suffered a bit because the design office roof leaked.....
Surely those days are long gone now though....
