Thanks Hairy...
Think it was the last year of Phantom ops with the RAF (was that 1990?) that the display aircraft performed an absolutely cracking show at the North Weald Fighter Meet, no doubt demonstrating that there was plenty of life in the old dog yet... And I didn't feel uncomfortable watching it.
The display culminated with a downhill landing on 02, hard braking locked both mainwheels, plumes of smoke from the Dunlops and eventually a loud "enough" in the form of the main tyres disintegrating... rubber everywhere... Well, that's how I remember it anyway!
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