Captain Bristow of British Airways was a man most intolerant of pilots with duck's disease. In the Ansett ground training section at Mascot there was a lovely man instructing , one Martin Henry, (5' 2'' of him) who flew in DC-2s and DC-3 s with Bristow in the war. Story goes at Lisbon one morning, Martin held up the departure as he had to go back into the terminal for more cushions to sit on. Martin, telling the story, said his pompous captain called to him out the open cockpit window - "Bloody short arsed pilots . . .. . you are flies in the ointment . . . spanners in the works."