Well Tuc, I am pleased you went to such lengths to get it in balance. When delivered it came with a pair of lifting bard but you would have had to have been precious McKenzie to lift it. we developed an adaptor to a low level hydraulic lift bomb trolley. elf and safety was just kicking off with directions on two man lifts etc. how the guys managed with the previous D2 I know not. the D2 was a pair of Dolly Partons (or a pair of pairs - nudge wink!)
I designed the RAM screens. the supports were filament wound GRP tubes but we could not get any. A company in Runcorn supplied enough for 3 a/c sets and spare. they had a minimum order of a ton. we needed a few yds. they did not invoice us at the paperwork cost more than the goods. 20+ years later I am buying bones for crash test dummies from the same outfit on the back of the goodwill they extended.
The team at BAe were quite supportive of what we were doing.
There was a cap com picture of a young dragartist with hair showing some airship what we had been upto