It's wonderful to see threads like this when we really had an Air Force! Mind you we didn't have C17's then so hence this question.....
Did the likes of Twin Pioneers, Single Pins, Austers have to self ferry? If so it must have taken ages and required numerous stages - some might see such a trip as quite a jolly, but fraught with difficulties en route...
Same goes for the helos.....the Belvedere I guess would have been a more than even a Belfast could "swallow".
I was 20 years too late joining the RAF (in 1979) but even then I ended up flying nothing but 1960's vintage ac!
MB