My first visit to RAE Bedford (then with a 10,000ft runway - bit shorter nowadays) I was treated to the sight of a Hunter doing 1 in 1s to runway 09 and on 27 there was an RAE Andover doing 5.5 deg approaches to an experimental MLS plus a Monarch B720 doing visual circuits.
All 3 aircraft were instructed to overshoot(nowadays go around) at their runway threshold and break left.