Command & Control Platform
I wonder if anyone can either confirm or deny a situation that I came across in the 60's ? While I was walking past the Hangers, I spotted a friend, supervising some Airmen washing down a Victor with high pressure hoses. The thing that stood out was that all the Victors on camp had been re-painted in camouflage for low level operations, where as this Victor was still in the old Anti-Flash white.
As I approached my friend, obviously with a bemused expression on my face, he said "It's a Command & Control Platform & has been flying in the Stratosphere gathering up all the air burst Nuclear radiation, so we are washing off all the millisieverts"!!
This is the first time that I had heard the expression Command & Control Platform. I know that the United States run three E-4B Command & Control Platforms out of Offutt AFB. Did the RAF use this facility in the 60's?