Barney, as a humble ex-overseer of driver (airplane)........ OK I used to sit between and behind them with hands on throttles and flaps in the vain hope that I may be able to stop them killing me......... My recollections of South Georgia are that it wasn't a run & break but more of post drop dambusters type manoeuver ie pedal to metal and pull up and left. The intention not being to slow down but to stop Albert impacting the glacier at the end of the Cumberland Bay. I do not recall a dummy being dropped but our usual wheeze was to stuff a few blank Blueys in the top of the harness pack. On deployment this gave a nice impression of a split mail bag. Was fun to watch the booties in their Geminis(?) racing round the bay trying to collect all of the "lost mail".
