Jack Stafford (courtesy geriaviator):-
“This was just removed from your aircraft's spinner, Staff”
If you tried to fire a chunk of red hot jagged metal at high velocity into the spinner of a fast rotating propeller driven by a Napier Sabre, without disturbing the performance of either, I strongly suggest that it would not be possible. The CSU must have missed total destruction by a hair's breadth and therein the continued flight of his steed. No wonder he hung onto it for so long! It is a measure of the constant danger he and his comrades faced thereafter that it then lost all significance. It is only by such vignettes that we can hope to grasp the reality of that desperate period in our history.