I remember when at Odious and the RAF were due to introduce the SAR Sea King to replace the venerable Wessex, we had an old Chiefy who should have been put out to pasture years before, but somehow against all the odds he was selected for Seakings and went off to do close to two years of courses, he was first trained to be dual trade and then did all the Sea King courses...
We had a visiting Sea King from Boscombe pop in for fuel which had all sorts of gubbings hanging on the nose... And faster than squirrel sh*t this Chief normally noted for polishing chairs and not a lot else was out there to refuel it, marshalling in the bowser and two years of courses later... He couldn't find the fuel filler caps, much to the mirth of everyone that had wandered out... Apparently Boscombe had a early American built prototype that had the filler caps on the other side of the aircraft...
