A naval friend of my late father fixed up a trip in a fast jet for me when I was 15... (yes, there really were fast jets back then
).
But I was a CCF cadet - unfortunately a pongo as the school didn't have any other sections.
The jet was a Sea Vixen FAW2 - and the occasion was the Farnborough Air Show. An unbelievable experience when the RAF wouldn't even sanction an AEF Chipmunk trip for a non-ATC CCF/RAF cadet.
As for Sten guns, we had a couple in the school armoury plus blank firing barrels which had a restriction to provide gas pressure to work the mechanism - one of which had broken. One day I went with another CCF chum to collect the repaired barrel from the local gunsmiths - the look on the locals' faces when my chum produced a Sten gun from his brief case to fit the newly repaired barrel was hilarious. We took it back to school and tested it on the lower sports fields, but after a brief burst of fire the barrel failed again.
The joys of the 1960s!