Hello and welcome to this special episode of Epoch

where I should be talking about the history of aviation and I'm joined by

returning guest squadron leader Tim Davies how are you?

Yeah retired.

Thanks so much, yeah, absolutely, good to see.

Yeah. That was the rank of retired, that wasn't it?

Yeah, was that, she's there.

Cool.

So you flew, just to remind everyone who might have forgotten,

you flew a number of things but among them the

Hawk and tornadoes. Yeah Hawk tornado was what I flew on throughout my entire career

pretty much from leaving the Hawkking in training went back to

the Hawk T1 and went to tornado gel 4 which is the ground attack variant then came

back for Hawk T1 and then to teach on that and then back for Hawk T2 as well that's

right. So here's a picture of a T1 yes that's what the red arrows

fly obviously in a black livery there yes but so that used to be sort of your

one of your offices yeah absolutely that's a Hawk T The Legacy Hawk, as we called her, she's like the

M. midget of the of the flying world, Bakerlight dials in there. That's a cold rose

base Hawk, I believe, a neighbor Hawk, as it says on the side there. And I did, I held with what frada at the time down at Coltrays before I went onto the

the da cano and flying training got really used to how they operate hawks and stuff.

It's a great airplane still flown by the Red Arrows. It's

I think everyone that's gone through the legacy Hawk, the Hawk T1,

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