As a keen young Air Cadet ... many, many years ago ... I still remember an utterly enthralling lecture on the Hawk given by a certain F/L John Thrope. I believe he had just started (must have been early/mid 70's) on the Hawk Test Programme at Boscombe Down. I met him again at RAF Manston some years later when he dropped in with a Hawk for the weekend (he came from Deal Kent and went to school in Dover). A wonderful and most generous Gentleman.
I believe he was later promoted to Group Captain ... But sadly no longer with us.