Now someone on this thread has made the suggestion that the RAF often has a C-130 lurking around Kenya and that he might be able to get some help to the hopeless cause.
I flew for 16 years in Transport Command and its successive guises for 16 years and I could tell you a myriad of stories about how it used to be possible on "training flights" to take a 4-engined aircraft to Machrihanish in order to get fresh lobsters and kippers for a dining-in night (just as a modest example).
I even remember a famous AOC using a Beverley to move soil and associated carp from Nairobi to Aden for his garden.
Surely those days have gone?
Anyone nowadays who is found out to have used MoD equipment to rescue an elderly eccentric from the middle of darkest Africa in order for said eccentric to continue his fantasy for another 50 miles or so is a very brave man indeed.
Let us be realistic, get MK home in one piece and leave his Cub to rot into the African bush. You can get another one for £30k.
Just how long do you think you can you operate a C-130 for £30k?
The taxpayers (including me) will want to know.