Originally Posted by
BEagle
Neither controller nor assistant was looking out; in fact the NCO controller said he didn't even know what a JP looked like
This doesn't sound right! To have reached the rank of NCO controller in those days he/she would have had to come through the AATC ranks. Either that or crusty old NCO aircrew retrained in ATC. All ATC training was carried out at Shawbury, and guess what type of aircraft bashed around giving the students experience of controlling them?