Progressing nicely!
I'll add my voice to the "be careful of anything not in the regulations" camp. Whilst errors were made, there was almost an obsession with regs. Much of the "devil may care" attitude of pilots is , wrongly, attributed at an exaggerated level. A case in point being the re-harmonisation of guns during the Battle of Britain which, (my research and experience has shown anyway) tended to be done at a SQUADRON level, not just random pilots. We have, I suspect, Mr Robinson to thank for that!!
Again, it did happen. I know of at least one senior pilot (who flew Hurricanes) who breeched regulations and obtained the full boost the engine would generate, by the simple expedient of sticking matchsticks in the holes in the Boost Cutout !!!! He was famed as having the fastest but most repaired/replaced Hurricanes in Fighter Command!