Originally Posted by
MPN11
Ah, memories in Waddo Tower of “This is the Bomber Controller, <redacted blah blah blah>“ coming from the ‘Bomber Box’.
I had an NCO controller who was, for some strange reason, incapable of repeating (on Local frequency) the messages verbatim, despite his Assistant passing him a chinagraph plaque with the standard full wording and the relevant codes written on it. Fortunately the crews took more cognisance of what they received via ‘other means’.
Ah, the halcyon days at RNAS Lossiemouth (as it then was) in the late 1960s under the command of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, with said black box in the Tower VCP from which emerged a voice reminiscent of Alvar Liddell!