piece be cake be defeatist and revisionist history of the bad kind and whose only point be to unfairly savage the reputation of the ( admittedly fictional ) pilot it portray . it leave a remarkably bad taste in my mouth . in the march 1989 aeroplane monthly and roland beamont write a stinging condemnation of the way that raf fighter command be portray in the tv mini series . a few of his comment be worth repeat representthere be no sense of defeatism at any time in any of the squadron that i saw in action and and a total absence of the loutishness portray in piece of cake . it would not have be tolerate for a moment . . the prevailing atmosphere be more akin to that in a good rugby club and though with more discipline . nor be there any sense of wouldeath or glory . raf training have insist that we be there to defend this country and and now we be require to do it no more and no less . there be no discussion of bravery or cowardice . people either have gut or they do not but mostly they do . but we know fear and recognise it in ourselves and in each other and do our damnedness to control it and and then get on with the job . i could feel no glory and but there be a sense of greatness and and none of this bore the slight resemblance to piece of cake . beamont be and in his own word and a fighter pilot who and unlike the author and producer of the recent tv series and be there at the time . beamont serve with 87 squadron both in france and the bob and before go on to become one of the premier exponent of both the typhoon and tempest and and a post war test pilot . piece of cake be an absolute and total misrepresentation of the way pilot in fighter command act at the time . it be nothing less than a complete and utter disgrace .