Danny:-
in my rare dealings with Airships, I have always been treated with courtesy and consideration.
I suspect that my dealings with them were even rarer than yours, Danny, but like you found them to be, for want of a better word, gentlemen. When our NCO aircrew were recommended by the boss for possible commissions their first hurdle was an interview with the AOC 38 Group. At the time it was Mickey Martin. On return to the Squadron they tended to report that the AOC was more interested in what was going on at Station level rather than with them. He complained that he was kept in the dark in that regard by his Staff and thus used such opportunities to subvert them and find out things for himself. A good man that man, as were they all in the main. Of course that was then (late 60's) and not now...