I have some fond memories of the FB5 Vampire. As an ATC cadet I used to spend the occasional w/e at the local RAFA 614 sqdn helping to refuel them between sorties. We did this in the hope of a trip in their one Meteor Mk7, in vain in my case which is probably just as well as I would probably have been sick. (Just for the record they also had one Meteor Mk8 which no-one would fly because they didn't like the ejector seat)
They had one FB5 which had landed short and dragged the airfield fence halfway across the airfield. Although it was relatively undamaged, it became a bit of a hangar queen as the JTP used to go above limits and no-one could find out why.
Less fond memories are of the incredible, ear piercing whistling noise of the Goblin engine when you had one or two doing engine runs just outside the hangar doors.