pace
Agency in Brussels, as the first CIVIL/MILITARY Area
Radar Controller to be qualified as such at Southern
Radar Sopley and London Radar Heathrow. All of which subsequently evolved into my own
personal involvement in the establishment of a
European Wide Network of Interactive Multimedia
Design Studios in collaboration with the likes of
Apple, Canon, Xerox and DEC and a plethora of
other partners.
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tionally dated to 753 BC, up to the final conquest of Italy in 270 BC, ROME transformed from a small city-state in Italy to the master of the entire peninsula - through a long period of conquest, accomplished just as much with political and diplomatic efforts as with military might, the Romans established themselves as a major power and sowed the seeds of what would later become one of history’s great empires - as a new Roman Republic was declared in the late 19th century and crushed by French troops that same year of its creation, revolution remained in the air and the movement for the reunification of Italy succeeded; a new Kingdom of Italy took control of much of the Papal States and was soon pressurising the Pope for control of ROME - by the time that French troops had left the city in 1871 and Italian forces had taken control, ROME was declared capital of the new Italy - and gave its name to the European Treaty that established an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community (EEC) on 1st January 1958. An event that I had studied at Grammar School, which had convinced me of the veracity of the project, and the potential of the UK becoming a supporter thereof with the desire of becoming a member. When that time arrived however, for the peoples of the UK to vote on membership of the EEC, Linnie and I were not allowed a vote because of having been seconded from the Ministry of Aviation, to Eurocontrol Brussels initially and then to the Maastricht Upper Air Traffic Control Centre in the Netherlands. Had we had the opportunity to do so at that time, however, our experience of the Top Down anti-democratic "DO WHAT I SAY NOT WHAT I DO" mindset of control, had become enough to convince us then NOT to take part in THE PROJECT, whatever that was destined to [BE]come.
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ility of establishing an Air Traffic Control
System in Germany, as part and parcel of the Marshal
Plan and the establishment of EUROCONTROL •
during my training straight from Grammar School,
as the very first Joint Civil/Military Area Radar
Controller to be seconded to Eurocon trol by the
Ministry of Aviation, subsequent to my duties at
London Radar, on the north side of Heathrow Airport
and Southern Radar based at RAF Sopley, before the
UK even joined the EEC • SO [IT] was that my
soul-mate and I as well as our belongings and an
Afghan Hound, travelled by road and ferry to
Brussels, in our brand new Volkswagen 411 Variant,
which was subsequently utilised, for our various
family visits home to Britain, as well as to our new
homes in Brussels and Sittard NL, following the
opening of the Maastricht UAC in Beek. It was at the
time when we were living in Wilhelmina Straat in
Sittard, next door to the Schouwburg Platz... and opposite the Centraal Ziekenfonds, during the 1970s Oil Crisis, that I was issued with a special pass to drive back & forth to the work at the UAC in
Beek, during the times when there was a driving ban imposed, to save fuel.
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