Great stuff, Danny, I'm on the edge of my seat at the thought of this poison gas; I must have missed something. Couldn't you have used water for the testing if you were only testing delivery?
The thought of what would have happened with a crash, on take-off, from your rather dodgy strip...
Your point about promotions. It was automatic F/O to F/Lt after three years? - this judging by my father's records - and those of those who joined with him, courtesy of the Gazette. So did this mean you couldn't be promoted more quickly, or did it mean that any earlier promotions were just 'acting' so as to save the Government salary costs?