Bob also told a story of the javelin Sqn in Malta. The wine/brandy in malta was dire (marsovan?, Chisk Blue label? It´s a long time ago). So they had a couple of wing tanks scoured out and used to fly it to Cyprus, get them filled and fly it home. The aircraft would get to Cyprus OK, but the prevailing headwinds made getting home a bit iffy on internal fuel, so they´d wait till the met forecast said calm air or a tailwind before departing.
As the story went, everything was fine till the met man got it wrong and the crew didn´t realise till past the point of no return and ran out of fuel about 40nm short of Luqa. Crew declared a double engine failure, cause unknown, ejected, and were picked up safely. Not sure what happened to the met man..