In 1970, I was an aviation-obsessed 10 year old, living with my parents in Bielefeld (my father was a civil servant attached to the army there).
I wrote a school project about the RAF and the Head Teacher sent it to the CO at RAF Gutersloh. I was invited to spend a day there and was shown around as a VIP - it was wonderful! I even got interviewed by BFBS at the end of it.
As I recall, I spent some time in the control tower, sat in a two seater Lightning, had a go in the Lightning simulator, and crawled all over a Wessex. Of course, some of those memories might be a bit hazy but I will never forget how wonderful it all was, or the magnificently named F/O who showed me over the Wessex:
Paul Akehurst De Visme!