Think the Swedish flights used Dakotas, Hudsons(?), and possibly Whitleys too. It was almost certainly not available to the general public like now, but almost certainly reserved for diplomats and those engaged in war work, spys, evaded air crews, etc.
The crews themselves were probably a mix of RAF and some (few?) civilians – although, being wartime, they would have been under military orders anyway. – Nermal

Like a naked koala wouldn’t cause drag? – Nermal

And then afterwards…? – Nermal

Stieglitz,

I think you way out of line here you don’t know the pilot and I think you owe him an Apology for your comment.

If you and others feel that your right then its time for me to leave this board.

Have a nice life

An apology for what?
Maybe you are of the opinion that you are much more important than everyone else here – whether thay have expressed an opinion on this or not – and that you are irreplaceable. No one is irreplaceable. But if you must make a “this or me” demand then make it about something much more worthwhile.
Don’t leave.

If that pilot had been flying an airliner – with me on board if no one else – and made some sort of mistake which brought him into extremely close proximity to the ground at a time not of his original choosing then I – for one – would want to make sure that he knew that he had made a mistake, that he knew that making life threatening mistakes does have consequences even if no one gets hurt nor property damaged, and that everyone knew that this kind of event (although more usually out of anyones control) would be mentally less likely to happen because a report had been made and attention brought to bear.
Speaking here from a position of ignorence (of course), I just don’t want to see anyone else think they can do this sort of thing because they are immortal. – Nermal

Can you still taste chicken with dental problems? Though they actually have a beak…;) – Nermal

Thick someone once tried to make me eat 2 horses in France… At least, it tasted like a 2CV!;) – Nermal

I had an argument with a friend lately about The Independent relaunching in a tabloid size format. He reckoned people would no longer buy it as it was now a tabloid.

I argued that it was still the same paper, just in a tabloid size paper format. He said people would consider it to be the same as The Sun, Mirror etc and if the same thing happened to his favourite paper The (Glasgow) Herald then he’d stop buying it.

After about three hours of trying to assure him it’s just a change of paper size and not content, I gave up and bored my eyeballs out with a cork screw !!! 😮

The Independant made the decision to go totally tabloid when it found that near all the returns (the unsold papers) were broadsheets. People didn’t want the broadsheets and so bought the tabloids instead, going reluctantly back to broadsheets only when the smaller edition had sold out. – Nermal