I can remember doing a route once on one of Lyneham's mighty K models when we diverted to Shearwater in the middle of winter due to a problem with the cargo bay pressurisation system. The SVC (female Flt Lt) decided that her role was to go down town with the front end to enjoy the hotel. I stayed behind to help the GE. My respect for what the GE's did on route (apart from eating more than me and fighting for hammock space) took a dramatic rise. I thought pushing 2 bits of pipe together and doing up the jubilee clips would be simple - how wrong I could be. We had no external lighting, just a torch and it was a long way below freezing. We arrived back at the hotel having not eaten and looking like an oily sack of **** to be greeted by the front end in the lobby awaiting wheels back to the aircraft thinking that we had gone on the 'lash' in uniform - I wish!