Walter,
..... at Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, famous as the home of the Royal Air Force Central Flying School.....
Colloquially known as "Hell-on-the-hill", I'm told.
....Our training continued on Airspeed Oxfords, that were twin-engined, single wing aircraft with quite large fuselages.....
A pre-war design, it was still being used at Dalcross as late as 1954 (next step the Meteor !) The idea was that you could train a whole crew at once. Tee Emm tells a good tale of a crewman who was in dire straits with your problem. He opened the door for the purpose - and fell out ! Luckily he was wearing his parachute..
....a special monitoring device in a corner of the airfield...
Could this be the "camera obscura" we puzzled over long ago on this Thread ?
...before we could put up those coveted golden wings (brevets) on our left breasts...
'Fraid memory is playing you tricks, Walter. Wings were always "drab silk" (until 1950, and that short-lived horror of a New Pattern No.1 jacket. And Mess kits, of course).
You beat me to it by three months (mine was on 3rd March 1942).
Could you have a more perfect illustration of how this Thread is supposed to work?
Danny.