These went into the sea:

31 October 1942 R7708 PR V P/O Payne
Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by ‘Friendly Fire’, ditched in Pegwell Bay. Wreckage recovered in 199?

5th November 1942 R7818 PR Y W/O SpallinHawker Typhoon. Hit balloon cable at Dover. A/C crashed in Channel. Pilot posted as missing.

15th December 1942 R7689 PR B P/O Amor
Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by Uffz Josef Zirngible 1/JG26, 2 mls East of. Dover. Pilot killed. Body washed ashore.

15th December 1942 R8899 PR X Sgt Turek
Hawker Typhoon. Hit tree on Rhubarb to Roulers

23rd December 1942 R8837 Sgt Davis Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by Uffz Heinrich Schnell 2/JG26 1110 hrs 20 km north of Gris Nez. Crashed 15 mls south of North Foreland. Pilot killed

18th January 1943 R8898 PR F F/O Evans Hawker Typhoon. Take off accident at Bradwell Bay.

14th February 1943 R7872 PR S Sgt Wiseman Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2 over Straits of Dover 1100-1110 hrs. Pilot posted as missing.

14th February 1943 DN294 PR O F/Sgt Haddon Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2 over Straits of Dover 1100-1110 hrs. Pilot posted as missing.

2nd March 1943 DN300 PR W F/O Skett Hawker Typhoon. Damaged by flak

25th March 1943 DN560 PR R F/O Baldwin Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by Fw190 110 mls East of Ramsgate

1st April 1943 DN619 W/O Barker Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by flak 3 mls north of Dunkirk. Pilot posted as missing.

6th April 1943 DN416 PR P Sgt Van Zuylen Van Nyevelt Hawker Typhoon. Engine failure, ditched off Dover 12oo hrs. Pilot killed.

30th April 1943 R8883 PR K P/O Van Neste Hawker Typhoon. Dived into sea 3 mls east-south-east of Dover 0645 hrs. Pilot killed.

8th August 1943 JP390 PR J F/Lt Smith
Hawker Typhoon. Damaged by flak, ditched off Deal, Kent 1240 hrs.

20th September 1943 JP745 PR L P/O Turek Hawker Typhoon. Damaged by flak, ditched off Dieppe. Pilot rescued (2 days later)

26th September 1943 JP543 PR A P/O Demoulin Hawker Typhoon. Engine failure. Aircraft ditched. Pilot rescued.

4th January 1944 JR374 F/O Daix Hawker Typhoon. Ditched off Ostend, believed due to engine failure. Pilot posted as missing.

11th May 1944 MN496 F/O Soesman Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by flak near Caen. Ditched in Channel 1930 hrs. Pilot posted as missing.

11th May 1944 MN544 F/Lt Wood Hawker Typhoon. Shot down by flak off Cap D’Antifer. Pilot posted as missing.

Agreed he looks to have returned the same day – but not neccesarily to Lympne, from the way I read it. Haven’t got the book with me at work, but can you copy out the entire piece relating to it please?

Roy Payne put his Tiffy into Pagham Harbour and walked ashore. That’s been recovered I believe.

26th Sept 1943, Typhoon JP543 PR-A. Ditched after engine failure, piloted by Charles Demoulin.

It is another day concerned with A.S.R., in the course of which a second 609 pilot (F/O de Moulin) is successfully rescued from the ‘drink’…..He just has time to shout ‘White 2!’!, pull up to 800ft, jettison his hood and headgear, and bale out by employing negative G.

So it isn’t that one either.

Not the only one. I believe ‘Cheval’ Lallemand also did it. Anyway, F/Lt Smith wasa flight commander. Hit by flak, he ditched 100 yards off Deal on 8th August 1943 in JP390 PR-J.

Big event of the day is a Ranger (i.e. long range Rhubarb) by F/Lt Smith, who becomes the first 609 pilot and the first Typhoon pilot to reach Germany without a passport. Setting off at 10.48, he crosses the enemy coast N. of the Hague at 3000ft in cloud, and setting course for Nijmegen at 0ft, he arrives there at 11.36, and crosses the German frontier. Disappointingly enough no aerial targets are found. arriving at Nivelles (Belgium) at 12.00, he sets course for an exit at Bray Dunes. There is intense light flak on the outskirts of Brussels, however, and his a/c is hit. Whether this had anything to do with it or not, his engine cut at 1000ft off Deal, and at 12.40 hours, 100 yds from the shore, he landed in the sea after jettisoning his hood. The aircraft however caught fire, and though he got out all right and swam and walked to the shore, he received burns on the face and hands. The last 50 yds he was assisted by soldiers and coast guards, who on reaching the shore decided to strip him. This, and his stout refusal to be carried, earned him considerable applause from the crowd. He was then taken to Deal hospital, where he inherited the bed and nurse of S/L Beamont.
Enemy Casualties: Nil
Our ” : 1 Typhoon Cat. E; F/Lt Smith slightly injured.
Thus departed 609’s one long range Typhoon.

It’s spelt gourd you pansy.

Sugar daddy perhaps. You old fart.

Then don’t put it on the bottom of your post as a signature then. Or are you not, in fact, Adam Hellier, but……….

……….Joey Deacon!

“Only a small part of the photography business use these types of camera. This is mainly because of their bulkiness and cost. The best place to use this type of camera is in a photography studio. There are two different medium format cameras which use the same size of film but produce a different negative size. These cameras are the 6×7 and the 6×4.5 mainly because that is the size of the negative that they give. The 67 camera has a waistline viewfinder and the 645 can have either a waistline viewfinder or a standard viewfinder as you have on a 35 mm camera.”

I suggest that you do more research Adam.

1. The main wedding and studio portrait photography industry, brochure and catalogue photographers, aerial photography companies etc etc all use MF as their standard.

2. How about 6×4.5, 6×6 (probably the most widely used), 6×7, 6×8, 6×9 (which I use), 6×12 and 6×17? That’s a more accurate listing.

3. 6×45 cameras usually have prism finders, 6×7’s usually have waist level as standard with prism finders as options. You neglected to mention that rangefinders are available in 6×45, 6×7 and 6×9 as well, and that they use a different type of eye-level finder.