Lindoug,
I knew someone would come up with the details!
Bowler Radar (atop Green Mt on Asension) reported this Herc was “fishtailing” on its approach to ASI so as to lose time and ‘beat the record’. But just what record that was I have no idea.

Aeronut,
As you so rightly say Business Class on the Airbridge was something that had to be experienced to be believed. But there were differences. A lot of us boarded an Airbridge at Ascension (to fly to work you understand), only to be halted as we self-loaded, to be told that a “Navy Captain” was coming. He turned out not to be a Full 4-Ring RN Captain, but a MN Captain who was ‘going south’ to take over command of one the tugs that was thereabouts – and was a fairly basic gentleman!!!. Was this – I mused later – the one that got TEV Rangatira’s moorings hopelessley fouled-up in Stanley Harbour such that those of us sleeping off a 24-hr shift at RAF Stanley were kept awake? Or was that keeping awake the result of some Jock Regt pipers practising their skill just outside my cabin door? On complaining to the Jock Regt OC he said “I’m frightended fartless of the Pipe Major, can’t help”.
And was this the same TEV Rangitira when, on announcement of a possible Argy air-raid, manned all the gun positions. There was, however, a severe shortage of ammo for the Bren guns. The guy with the key to the ammo store had gone ashore on R&R. When, eventually, the ammo store was opened we (all and sundry) were put to filling Bren magazines and tossing them up to the bren-gunners on the upper decks. One of those so employed was a Padre. And as he pressed rounds into mags, and then tossed them ‘upstairs’, was heard to mutter “I don’t think I should be doing this. It might endanger my status under the Geneva Convention! And, moreover, it might make my career prospects a little more difficult!”. We calmed him by saying “if the Argies are going to come by air, then they’ll come from the side opposite from us”.
After all this I had to go on yet another 24-hr working shift at RAF Stanley. But so had everybody else! CO RAF Stanley said (at the start) “If there is anybody NOT working 15/18 hrs per day, every day, then he’s on the next Herc back to ASI.
HTH
Resmoroh