jAVELIN
33 squadron did a detachment to Cyprus in the early 60s. On the night before departure back to the UK there was surreptitious activity around one aircraft when a drop-tank was lowered and the space inside the fairing around the tank was filled with all kinds of goodies and alchohol. The tank was returned to the aircraft and all went well until the aircraft arrived, I think, at Orange, in France. When the landing gear was to be lowered there was a problem and the decision was made to fly to a desolate area and the drop-tanks were jettisoned. Some-how, no-one from the squadron was interested in going to the drop site1