I always pictured the BA crews of the glory days as two stereotypical Poms holding their pinkies out while drinking wine on the overnight and one "Hard Man" yobbo slurring Cockney, double-fisting lager, and keeping the locals away from the wallets of the Downton Abbey boys.
FEs/crewmen do cool things like this:
January 1968, near LS85, Laos. UH-1D air-to-air-kill on 2 x VPAF An-2 Colts, bombing US positions in Laos. Of 4 x Colts that attacked the US radar sites, two were shot down by the FE/crewman.