BOAC: Nope, don't think I did miss your point (it seemed unlikely), and you have reiterated it just as I inferred it.
You earlier posted that the mental pressure (to carry OFP fuel, among other things) was not good, and I think it is disingenous to flip between facts and ethos as it suits.
References to strange behaviour and it taking all sorts come across as school teacherly, and don't really encourage reasoned debate.