B2431 wrote in message ...
What disturbs me most is I actually miss those pigs.

Don't let it disturb you - the Phantom was (and still is) an incredible machine
and I'd have given my right arm to fly one (well, flying it would be difficult
with one arm, right enough, but you know what I mean).

Closest I ever got was sitting in an RAF Phantom FG.1 at an airshow at RAF
Chivenor (in Devon, England) when I was 10.

The jet was from 111 Squadron, and was painted jet black (nicknamed "Black
Mike"; it was the only RAF Phantom to be painted that way).

Beautiful birds.

Cheers
Graeme