Ah yes, sorry - forgot about 74! Actually it was only the Firebirds and the crows when I was at Wattisham - but tanking the F4Js back from Miramar and North Island was fun! If memory serves, my 'IRT' on the VC10K was completed on a trip flown from Dayton, RV'ing with a couple of the Tigers' 'new' F4Js from Wright-Patt, then tanking them to Goose for a 3-e ILS.
I like FV's fantasy air force idea - but could we move the Weston Zoyland Hunters to Merryfield and base some Javelins at WZ?? Even better - have a DH Hornet OCU at Merryfield as well?
Plus the non-embarked Sea Venoms and Sea Hawks at Yeovilton, of course!
I think that the last RAF aircraft I saw at Merryfield were a gaggle of Pioneers and a single Twin-Pin which were refuelling on the way to somewhere further west? Must have been in the early 1960s.