What, you mean to say that Airbus didn’t just fit heads up for’ard, 

when it was realised that the female urinals stuck too far out into the cargo area and couldn’t be stowed away, it was decided to “Just tell the girls to use the toilet cubicles under stairs up front”. 

 “whereas the inboard one on the Shackleton is much beefier, for some reason”

You have to push a lot harder when the co-pilot resting his boots on the pedals 

Sycamore?

I have this slightly clearer image of a Holophane light set up.

R Malcolm also produced all the towing gear for all British assault gliders and tugs. In addition they made all the metal components of the Hafner Rotabuggy, to drawings supplied by Hafner’s team at the AFEE. 

That’s an interesting article in a number of ways. I was at the range head that day and have a different understanding of what the trial drop was meant to be and how the plan changed twice whilst the aircraft were airborne. I still say it’s the loudest bang I’ve heard that didn’t involve smoke or flames. However, the oddest memory of the event was the comment from one of the observing army officers who had been watching the first load out (the Harvard hit the second) so intently that he hadn’t seen the incident. I was stood, open mouthed, pointing to the Harvard (gibbering idiot mode) when I heard “Oh one of the parachutes has burst” my reply was “The ffff…………ing HHHarvard ffffflew through it.”

If anyone is interested the load survived the drop as only one out of three parachutes was destroyed.

I learnt a lot about trials (we all did) that day and remain thankful I was only an observer and not the Trials Officer.

You’re looking for something like this.

Unfortunately this one does not cover Bluie East 2 but it does have approach plates for Bluies West 1, 3, 8 and 9

This is the paragraph on workmanship (build quality) in the RAE report on the FW190 that landed at RAF Pembrey in June 1942. Maybe Mr Holland had a point.