So here we are at EHVB just outside Leiden: a former Air Base (Vliegkamp) used by the naval aviation (Marine Luchtvaartdienst) until 2006, nowadays it is used as a musical theater.
We are sitting in a nicely preserved F-104G of 322 Squadron. You might recognize the Squadron’s mascot on the tail. A certain Italian certainly knows it as he painted a Mirage in their colors. But today we are flying the original, made by the company who bribed our royalty to get it selected instead of a Mirage.
The last time there was a jet fighter on this runway was actually in March 2014, when the F-16s stood here with engines running, saving fuel and ready to scramble to protect the nuclear conference in The Hague.
We light the afterburner, start rotating at 115 and are off the runway shortly after. A quick look back at Wassenaar, the dunes, the Vlietland and Valkenburg lakes and Leiden in the distance between them and the journey is started.
I was too lazy to do any fuel calculations and too scared of the North Sea to not bring tip tanks so my supersonic flight was limited to Mach ~1.5
England comes into view very soon and before you know it I’m doing a low level recce run on the Oxford area:
I think this is Bicester
And this is Witney
Again, this time waving at it from Brize-Norton final.
Landing was uneventful. It feels really weird not to lift the nose significantly and to just fly straight into the runway at 200 knots but it works 
Taxiing by the tanking facilities at Brize-Norton before I head off to the B&B.
Sorry for the low-res VR screens but with the stick mounted well below and a bit in front of my desk, flying on a monitor feels like squinting at a distant window.