Wicked load out:
Just been reading a piece on Pprune about the Hawk by a guy who was the photographer at Dunsfold (he may well have taken those pics ). His opinion was that a lot of the stores "trialled" on Hawk demonstrators were just marketing stunts rather than realistic options. This applied to both Skyflash and Sea Eagle. Apparently, ground clearance with the latter was so marginal that it took them ages to load the missile due to having to wriggle it under the aircraft (remember when looking at it fitted that a substantial trolley has to get under there too).
The wierdest thing he saw hung on a Hawk was a Stingray torpedo! He couldn't get any sense out of anyone about how that was supposed to work. The standing joke at Flight Test was that Marketing had an Airfix kit of the Hawk and a really big spares box full of weapons which they dipped into at random...
Just been reading a piece on Pprune about the Hawk by a guy who was the photographer at Dunsfold (he may well have taken those pics ).
Another impressive load out: