"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname
here.me.uk saying something like:

They were, incidentally,
used in some aircraft equipment although, according to my late father who
was an aircraft instrument fitter, where the British aircraft were
designed
so that you could dismantle anything with a standard toolkit, the
Americans
would design the aircraft first, then a set of specialised tools you
needed
to get to the fixings they had put behind things.

Reminds me of an old RAF airframe guy who told me the Spitfire was an
utter ******* to repair battle damage on, as everything was crammed in
and needed lots of time to take panels off and rivet back on, whereas
the Hurricane was repairable with a pot of glue and a bedsheet.

The Hurricane won the battle of Britain as the spitfire didn't have the fire
power to bring down the bombers and there were ten times as many Hurricanes.
Somehow they couldn't pin a medal on a piece of furniture.