The Good Old Days.
Nutloose (your #9 and my #11),
Tried to join Yahoo, got embroiled in the procedure, lost will to live, am happy with what I've got, not to worry.
Still leaves two questions hanging in the air: what was the weird thing on the side of that Vengeance, and what exactly was the "leash" that Gabrielson was hanging on ? Seem to remember that back in the Hawker Audax/Demon days * they had a Vickers "K" gun (?) on a Scarff ring at the back. The gunner had a "monkey strap" to hold him in while giving him maximum freedom. It was so called as it resembled the one worn by the barrel-organ monkies who collected the pennies from the crowd (if any).
Note *: before even my time !
Danny.