ORAC, I only said that for the non ICs
Anyway, holding all those figures in your head and spewing them out atthe right intervals was the trick.
Your Canberra tale reminds me of a Frogex.
The Vulcan 1s out of Waddo were supposed to do a non-exercise transit over France, descend over the Med and do a low level faker pentration back to UK.
Prestige exercise so all the aircraft launched early to allow for late goers. They then went in to trombone timing legs towards Teeside (as it now) to lose 20 minutes or so. Once they hit the French FIR they also hit a stonking, unforecast, headwind.
They all pushed up to about .95 and were making about 400 kts to Nice. The French, not wanting to waste and opportunity, put up Mystere's for 180 stern conversions. Everything went fine until they rolled out 2 miles behind