Years ago I shared the circuit at Newcastle Woolsington with a pair of USAF F-111's - shooting the ILS to keep up some currency they said

Another memory stirred... about 45 years ago, I would occasionally spend the day on the spectators' balcony at Gatwick and recall once or twice seeing primered Hawks do an approach and go around. Can I presume Dunsfold didn't have an ILS approach and they would use Gatwick (or elsewhere) to check the kit?

Newcastle is/was a master diversion airfield (is that the right terminology?) for the North Sea ranges etc, so is used quite often for familiarisation vists - very rarely by the USAF nowadays :sad:

Maybe the military running out of airfields to give practice visiting different stations .
Back in th '70s , operating a Trident into NCL Rwy 05 . No parallel taxiway , so it was a 3 point turn on the rwy to taxi back .... We'd heard an RAF Phantom doing practice ILS , low approach , G/A behind us .... As we were at right angles to the Rwy still turning , Phantom went around V. low over us ; couldn't see him but the rocking he gave us on a Trident's notoriously stiff u/c was quite severe .
Pax were upset , as we were .... the skipper so much so that his comment on R/T ...
'' You Young man , are seriously BoXXXXed , and crossed off my Christmas card list '' .

Didn't think at the time to inspect for soot or burnt paint on the roof !

rgds condor .

Now that I'd like to have seen !