PN (#3),
Some weekend in the early sixties, near Shawbury, the Red Devils were returning from a display when one of the old Dragon's engine failed. As the loaded aircraft could not now maintain height, the pilot appealed to his pax to do the decent thing.
This they did; the lightened aircraft flew on and landed safely. The SDO at Shawbury spent the rest of the afternoon sending transport to "rescue" the castaways from the low taverns in which they had taken refuge, and where they were now being royally entertaind.
Or so I was told, as it was before my time there.
D.