Or a couple of car stories then..?
NATO Tiger meet at USAF Bitburg in 1981. On the Saturday evening the hosts put on an excellent review on the raised stage of the Officers' Club (including a brilliantly funny rendition of Swan Lake with a talented cast of hairy aircrew dancers dressed in aircrew long underwear, tutus and flying boots).
After the finale, it was decided to put a Tiger striped VW Beetle on the stage and try to break the world record for the number of people in and upon it. Said vehicle was driven around to the double external doors at the end of the stage. Minor problem was that the stage was raised 4 feet above the road outside. A large number of well oiled aircrew lifted the car only to find that it was too wide to fit through the doors. Rolling the car through 90 right solved that problem and the record attempt was soon under way. Things were going well until there was a loud BANG and the car dropped through the wooden stage floor up to its axles. Attempt declared DPCO and we all went to bed.
Prior to departure the following afternoon, as we were loading our kit onto the aircraft a desperate Officers' Club manager (who had only just found the wreckage of the previous evening's fun) was seen running from aircraft to aircraft pleading for advice on how to extricate the car from his club. To this day, I have no idea how they removed it!
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A good few years ago the Puma had an ongoing problem with the sliding cabin doors falling off.
Various solutions had been tried and failed. Eventually OC Eng decided that enough was enough. One Friday, prior to "happy hour", he announced his new "fix". He decreed that all doors would be removed until further notice as the aircraft was cleared for flight with the doors removed!!
Winter was approaching and the station had a detachment in Norway...140 kts, minus 30 degrees and no doors - lovely.
To show him how much his engineering and human consideration was appreciated by the aircrew, during "happy hour" both doors of his station Mini mysteriously disappeared...