Chris Nicholas wrote in message ...

Some
contemporaries allegedly reported that one or more of the ideal steps
had not been followed.

I was told that the claim was for a climb in a wave-assisted
cumulo-nimbus. Metereorological evidence was obtained about the
prevalence of a) wave and b) cu-nims on the day in question.

I have also heard of a forged height claim in Scotland in which the
pilot, busy with needle at kitchen table, forgot that barographs
scribe in an arc and managed to produce a trace in which he arrived at
height before he left.

Ian