I was one of the fighter controllers at Patrington who used to control the Concorde prototype on its supersonic runs around the North Sea. All because none of the air tragic control people had the experience of working high and very fast aircraft. Trubshaw sent us one (!!) Concorde tie for Christmas 1971 to say thanks to the Concorde Controller. We drew lots for it if I remember rightly.
Who remembers Black Jim Walton and Jack Webb, or perhaps Lofty Wetherall or Jim White. or even RAF Patrington for goodness sake.