Shortest F6 sortie I controlled was a pair scrambled to intercept a pair of A-10s. They called off the end of the runway and intercepted them just of Spurn point. The A-10s played defensive covering each other. The F6s were turning and burning to keep put of the gunsights whilst trying to get a shot. Total time on channel from start till chicken RTB was about 7 minutes.
Shortest F4 sortie O controlled was a LU sortie with a clean aircraft against a high level target coming in from the east at around 50K. Canned set-up, not sure why it was arranged, maybe they bored or it was a bet. Scrambled as the target reached about 150nm out, reheat climb, bunt at the tropopause, accelerate, climb, single turn in behind, ident, splash, liner, cruise descent for a straight in approach to land. Total time from wheels up to touch down was 13 minutes.
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