Does anyone remember the 1969 Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race ? We Tankertrash operated out of Loring and Goose and refuelled the Navy F4 and the Harrier
A few months later there was a cocktail party to celebrate this at the Inigo Jones Banqueting Hall in Whitehall funded by the Navy. In this (free) pi$$ up was a large cake with a picture of a RN F4 and the cake was destined for Great Ormond St.
We decided to 'steal' it . We managed to get it out of the upstairs hall and go downstairs in the street until we were apprehended by RN Police on the door. I was then being b0llocked by the Sqn Cdr on how I'd let the RAF down etc etc when this Air Marshal (we were all in uniform) poked his nose in and said what a wizard wheeze this was to take it to the RAF Club and ransom it to the fishheads. With one bound I was free !!