I think the Phantom will always be my favourite fast jet of that era Christo. When I was about 13, I went for a week to RAF Coningsby with the Air Cadets. As well as getting to crawl around the BBMF Lancaster, a couple of us spent an evening standing by the airfield perimeter watching the Phantoms take off - jeez, but those things were loud on full afterburner, they made the ground shake like no other aircraft I've ever seen! We also did an aircraft wash on a Phantom, and got to help the groundcrews on them in a hangar - I remember them being huge great things, and you wondered how such a massive construction could go so fast. I think they are like the big muscle cars of the aircraft world. Never got to work on fast jets while I was in the RAF though.