As an aside to the other great Typhoon pilots, I had an instructor in my early days, Eddie Hewett who had been shot down in a Typhoon near Abbeville and badly hurt. He wore a beard to cover wounds and had a large lump of his thigh missing. He said he had been saved when the machine hit a land mine after going through a wall and that blew the machine apart and him out of it??
I once saw a picture of him with a group around a Hurricane in the Western Desert as a Sergent Pilot but I belive he was a Wing Commander when the war ended??
Anyone else know any more about him?? A great pilot and instructor.
Speedbird 48.