When the FunBus was first painted in John Major Grey (plus pansy 'blue vein' cheat line
), 'the girls' decided that it needed a hot weather trial to assess the effect of the new paint.
Despite having been assured that there were plenty of hot, sandy places eminently suitable, 'the girls' and their boffins decided that Nevada was the only acceptable location, so off they buggered for a few weeks, with the aircraft full of extra boffin wiring.
Guess what - there was no problem. So back they (eventually) came and I went over to Boscombe with a crew to bring it back to Brize.
The engineers then discovered that the Boscombe boffins had left several miles of their wiring installed, but hadn't provided any weight and balance figures for it.... The usual handbag session between Brize and Boscombe then took place and, if I recall correctly, it didn't fly again until the Brize engineers had stripped out all the extra wiring Boscombe had left behind....
The 'blue vein' soon went, thankfully!