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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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