No, I mean actually getting them airborne and joined up in a formation at the right time and place to engage an enemy formation.
They only times it worked were when it was preplanned, something with which the real enemy would have presumably have been reluctant to cooperate.
In live exercises I can’t remember a single occasion it worked. And I was an FC/MC on most of the occasions we tried it through the 80s and early 90s.
Personally I found a pain in the ass and operationally ineffectual. As I say, Bader’s Big Wing comes to mind.