Alas I am but a yoof and the closest I got was the three?? that were parked on the lazy runway outside the old 11 (ex 23) HAS site at Leeming.
Big and ugly but looked far sexier than the panavia cr4p I was forced to work on.
I am that sad a spotter type now I am building a 1/72 RF-4E from Mr Revell......
It has been a hoot reading all the tales of derring do, better by far than some of the books I've bought.