Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, GCB, CBE, DFC & Bar, DL (29 June 1906 – 1 June 1983) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

Also, in the face of escalating costs, he implemented the cancellation of the British Blue Streak ballistic missile system but then found the RAF was without any such capability when the Americans cancelled their own Skybolt ballistic missile system.

[3] On successfully passing through the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, he was commissioned as a pilot officer on 16 December 1925[4] and immediately posted to No.

56 Squadron at RAF Biggin Hill where he flew Gloster Grebes and then Armstrong Whitworth Siskins.

[3] Promoted to flight lieutenant on 9 July 1930,[6] Pike attended the Long Aircraft Engineering Course at the Home Aircraft Depot at RAF Henlow from August 1930 and then joined the engineering staff at the RAF Depot in the Middle East in October 1932.

219 Squadron flying Bristol Beaufighters from RAF Tangmere in February 1941[3] and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 13 May 1941 for showing great skill in intercepting enemy aircraft at night, destroying a raiding aircraft on his first night patrol.

[10] He was awarded a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross on 30 May 1941 for engaging attackers at night when the aerodrome was illuminated by the glare from a large number of incendiary bombs.

1 Mobile Operations Room Unit during the Allied Landings in Italy[13] in May 1943 for which role he was mentioned in dispatches in June 1943.

[23] He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1961 New Year Honours[24] and promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force on 6 April 1962.