Leon, I gather that Bastard Bill tried to throw the book at the 'zoom merchant' to whom you refer, for exceeding the Release To Service limitations......
Until someone happened to mention the Lightning - and whether 'reheat rotations' were in the R to S. BB allegedly got the message and perhaps coincidentally the witch hunting stopped shortly afterwards, with a comment "Just don't do it again!".
All the above is anecdotal, I hasten to add.
ExAdvert, that reminds me of the time I saw rather more AoA than IAS in an F-4 after having gone vertical during aggressor training....I'd been looking over my shoulder and subconsciously pressing forward on the control column as we climbed , so that we went straight up rather than gently pitching over to the inverted as had been my intention! But the low speed recovery worked fine, no dramas at all...... The F-5 mate merely called "Are you coming down any time soon?"....