Refuelling probes
AA62,
I was waving to you as you left Easter Island and XV 292 disappeared off the face of the earth re-appearing in Tahiti some three weeks later and returning to the UK with refuelling probes removed from Vulcans that were in American museums by parties of Techies from the Det at Offut.
As Max Boyce said " I know because I was there ".
A mention was made in an article in Air International some years ago entitled " Labours of Hercules " on how an un-named South American country had a sudden increase in the number of Hercs it was operating!