I too was immensely jealous when a good friend of mine took another friend up in a Hunter at Yeovilton and exceeded Mach 1. Apparently he qualified for this treat because he was a school teacher. Some years later I managed to get him to give me a trip in a JP5 because I now qualified as a civilian gliding instructor with the ATC. Not quite the same but great fun.
The friend who got the Hunter trip was not particularly interested in flying which made my jealousy more justified. He had only ever flown in an Auster and, when invited to take the controls in the Hunter, he applied the same control movements he would have done in the Auster. He then unwittingly discovered the roll rate of a fast jet and frightened himself silly.