I was on the fourth Hawk T1 course through Valley (XX Course) in 1978. We had a long flightline of shiny, new, reIiable airframes and I finished the course a month early (despite having taken two weeks off to go to Bisley for the RAF championships). I flew the final sortie of the first airframe, XX154, in December 2018. Where the hell have the last four+ decades gone ....