Re: USAF Advanced Jet Trainer competition...
Using ~40 year old T1/T1As doing display routines to sell T2s to the US? You'd be better off sending BBMF with a Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire!
The T2 must have made its final sale? With the T-50 being offered by KAI and Lockheed Martin:
And the Machi M-346 being offered as the T100:
I really can't see how the Hawk T2 is going to 'tickle the USAF's fancy'? I know the USN have the T-45 Goshawk but that was bought to train a different generation of pilots for the previous generation F-14 and F-18 and not today's F-15, F-16, F-22 and F-35 jockeys.
The US aren't stupid and sending the Red Arrows to the US on BAE's behalf would not make one jot of difference in my opinion.
The B Word