A chase car and a couple of personnel used to attend RAE Bedford in the '80s whenever a U2 was operating just in case one of the Alconbury based aircraft needed to go there.
The one time we landed a TR1 at Farnborough there was definitely no one from the detachment in the tower; I was tower controller at the time so I should know!
On this occasion the only communication from the chase car was '2 foot, left rudder, one foot, that's a good one!'
Then the ground handlers who weren't familiar with the type decided they knew how to move the aircraft to its parking place; they blocked the runway for about 20 minutes, the CO Experimental Flying getting more and more irate because it delayed validation flying of aircraft particpating in the actual display!(The TR1 was going in static display only).
Last edited by chevvron; 9th Jan 2022 at 20:03.