I proposed we adopt the well tried USAF Vietnam method of just sitting them on the floor.
That sparked an old memory from June 1985.
On XV 189, I remember it so well because it was unbearably hot and humid in Goose, seriously rare event, and the blackflies were up and about munching (!) everyone in sight. A forest fire was raging just across the river and was bearing down on the airfield, more pertinently on the fuel storage plant on the edge of the airfield.
At Dark o'clock the phone rang (crew residing in the Labrador Inn due to decorators!) and was quickly replaced in holder with expletives echoing down the phone line. When someone actually did listen to the caller, discovering that he had recently told that senior officer to F*** O** and stop disturbing him, he got the news that the crew of XV189 was required at the airfield immediately with the intention of evacuating over 200 personnel down to Gander in the event of the fire jumping the river and threatening the fuel storage.
Albert was thus decked out with a festive looking interior as the Loadmaster branch got down to setting up lashing tape in a continuous maze, much like airports of today, for the passengers to be guided aboard and to have something to hold on to.
As it happens, the wind changed as dawn broke and we all went back to bed. Something of an anti-climax, but at least the blackflies couldn't get through the triple glazing of the Labrador Inn. 12 hours later it was back to Lyneham.....via Honington!