Dan,
It's still a good day when you have an Eric Day painting like that to look at!
'Bootlegging' your fuel was a daily occurrence at Binbrook. One call from Marham ops that their promised trade (usually Jaguars) on Towline 5 had cancelled, the whole squadron programme would be re-vamped and the Binbrook circuit would be quiet for hours.
One young NCO eng controller observed that his was the only job he knew where you could go to the loo for two minutes and return to the ops desk and find yourself two hours out-of-date...
GP