RAF Cottesmore 1970 -1972
Served at Cottesmore between 1970 -1972 as an A Tech P, initially on 231 OCU and then 360 Sqn.
One funny story comes to mind after all these years, we had a rigger on the OCU who after meeting one of the local girls (Lay-By Lil from Oakham) at the Thursday night bob in the Flying Fox Club, he decided to take her for some horizontal entertainment in one of the B2’s. After driving out of the camp, he took the back road to the lay-by opposite Pan 20 where there happened to be a B2 parked. They both leap over the fence and he uses his aircraft key to unlock the cockpit door. Once inside, they are lying on the bomb aimer’s cushion in the nose and getting down to business and unknown to them, the snowdrops were doing their nightly drive around the airfield to ensure all was well when they noticed the nose of this aircraft bobbing up and down. The rigger and Lay-By Lil that night got the biggest almighty wake-up call when the snowdrops torch shone through the Perspex nose. A ride back to the guardroom in the Landrover for both of them and he was on a charge in front of the boss several days later and fined 10 Shilling’s. 
Another event whilst on 360, was the time one of the aircraft lost its ECM tip tanks, I believe this was due to water dripping through the DV window and shorting out the tip tank jettison switch. The aircraft was in the hangar for ages after this event undergoing investigation.
One more event, two riggers were sent out one night to do a crew swap on a T4, they ended up marshalling one of 115 Sqn’s Argosys into the pan – OC 115 was not a happy bunny. They ended up on tea bar duties and oxy bottles changes for a month.