Clearly, many of the posters in this thread have not looked back to the days of the ASCOT phenomenon that was AIR SUPPORT COMMAND,AKA, TRANSPORT COMMAND. Air Support Command Ops at RAF Upavon was my best ever posting as an AATC. I had too much to say at Shawbury as I then thought I knew the lot and scored the highest pass score of the class to be posted to Upavon, with no fxxxxxg a/c. I worked in ASCOC with some truly great old RAF types who even then dated back to Mosquito and before! John Ford, where are you now? Ops then catered for Hercules. VC10, Brittania, Andover, Comet, not to mention rthe 32 sqdn comms and TQF. We stuck pins in boards on a 24/365 basis to log all the comings and goings of a great fleet known to many as Air Elizabeth! Through thick and thin with many NATO exercises and lots of real drama, many will identify with this post. Many men served before the Tristar days who would be hurt and offended to be so defamed..........
