RAF Hastings crash due multiple birdstrikes at Darwin in the Fifties

[Fantome]

Pure speculation of course, and were we allowed to have any illusions back then?

All of that post highly commendable, sir. You should be writing your memoirs, a la Centaurus.

Thinks .. . . . was there ever a multi-engined aeroplane of British or American design where the pilots did not have the primary engine controls for themselves also, and were hence capable of initiating shut down and feather?