During those years, which were a spread of 1973-85 ish - there are a few pilots I would never fly with or in formation with. Two of them were Don Bullock and Jeff Hawke - there were others too. The former was an enigma. Always trying to find newer ways to impress and ALWAYS seeking that which was beyond him. The A26 accident at Biggin, which killed 6 innocent people aboard the aeroplane, was a result of crass stupidity. How he manged not to 'kill' Sally 'B' I shall never know - but in the end he killed himself - and the 6 unfortunates.
As for JH, he was a chancer. Anything that looked as though it would succeed he would do it. Bringing the B25's across the Atlantic to the Azores was fraught with danger, but he ploughed on - but in the process frightened the hell out of a couple of careful pilots - who abandoned him and the aeroplanes.
His fast run across Biggin one year in a B25 literally shattered the windscreen and cut him up quite badly - is another example of his extreme arrogance in an aeroplane. For Jeff was in fact a good pilot who took immense risks. Fortunately, unlike Don Bullock, his memorial has not been written as a consequence of his uneccessary risks - but more in the sense that he gave a great deal for the many who love aviation.