Reading Robert Jackson's book
Hawker Hunter The Operational Record*, it is interesting to note the number of fast jet pilots trained on the Hunter alone in 1955:
The first Hunters, all F.1s, arrived in April 1955 and the first course started on 15 May. From then on a new course arrived every three weeks; four courses were in progress at any one time, and each course lasted twelve weeks. Most of the students were in the twenty to twenty-one age bracket and fresh from FTS, although there was a sprinkling of more experienced pilots taking refresher courses after a ground tour.
When once we had an air force, eh BV?
*That's me taxying in on p 48, not 'taking off' as the picture caption states! Summer of '76 and a single-seat Hunter - it was a fantastic time!