Just been having a chat with the off-spring - all the pilots in the formation were ex-military fast-jet as are most but not all Airbus TPs. One German ex-mil turned down the offer, as being ex-Atlantics IIRC thought it wasn't his thing. I gather all the experimental TPs are ex fast-jet.
There is a lady at Airbus who is ex-BA and paid for her course at Boscombe, he said.