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Richard Dickie Haine first went solo in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth during August 1935, after only one week of tuition. He joined the RAF shortly afterwards as a Direct Entry Sergeant Pilot and left the service in 1970 as a Group Captain, OBE, DFC. During his long career he flew an extraordinary variety of aircraft types, starting with small biplanes that were designed upon the philosophy gained during World War I and finishing with Britains V Bomber force and American-designed fighters at the very edge of space.
His first posting was with No 25 Squadron flying Hawker Demons and Gloster Gladiators during 1936 until the unit was re-equipped with Bristol Blenheims and undertook a night-fighter role. These were difficult days during which the primitive radar system made it all but impossible to locate incoming enemy aircraft, but the squadron were also sent on several offensive missions over the recently invaded European countries. Haine was lucky to escape when his aircraft was brought down and crash-landed on a small Dutch island after an abortive raid on German occupied Walhaven airfield. After a hazardous journey on foot through the increasingly threatened lowlands he escaped on a RN Frigate. During the Battle of Britain he continued in the night-fighting role flying from Manston in Kent.
Now a Commissioned officer, he was given command of No 96 Squadron, flying Boulton Paul Defiants in the night defense of the industrial heartland of England. The, after a spell as a Staff Officer at Bentley Priory, he took command of No 448 (New Zealand Squadron) who were equipped with the superlative de Havilland Mosquito. During this period the squadron had an enviable score sheet in downing enemy aircraft during many night operations.
In 1945 the author was dispatched by ship to take charge of a newly formed wing to aid those forces still at war with Japan. However, whilst still at sea, the war ended and Haine found himself in Hong Kong with the task of getting Kai Tak airport operational immediately after its liberation.
His post-war flying was heavily involved in the development of jet-powered fighters and sophisticated new weaponry. He spent a long period as Wing Commander in Habbinya and Akrotiri and ended his career training the navigators of the V-Bomber nuclear Force

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Table of Contents APPENDIX ONE Aircraft Types Flown August 1935 to - photo 1
Table of Contents

APPENDIX ONE
Aircraft Types Flown

August 1935 to September 1970

TYPES FLOWN AS SECOND PILOT - photo 2
TYPES FLOWN AS SECOND PILOT APPENDIX TWO Un - photo 3
TYPES FLOWN AS SECOND PILOT APPENDIX TWO Units and Appointments - photo 4

TYPES FLOWN AS SECOND PILOT

APPENDIX TWO Units and Appointments 1935 19 August Cotswold Aero Club - photo 5
APPENDIX TWO
Units and Appointments
193519 AugustCotswold Aero Club, Staverton Civil Flying. First Solo. Gipsy Moth.
20 AugustBristol Flying School. Filton. Tiger Moths. Civilian.
20 OctoberRAF Uxbridge. Disciplinary Course. LAC.
7 NovemberNo. 11 Flying Training School. Wittering, Hart, Audax, Fury. Sgt.
193610 MayNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Hawkinge. Fury, Fury 2. Sgt.
27 OctoberNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Hawkinge. Demon.
193830 JuneNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Hawkinge. Gladiator.
3 OctoberLink Trainer Course North Weald.
13 DecemberAttached to RAF Cranfield Blenheim Conversion.
19393 JanuaryNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Hawkinge. Blenheim.
24 AugustNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Northolt. Blenheim.
18 SeptemberNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Filton. Blenheim.
4 OctoberNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, Northolt. Blenheim.
194016 JanuaryNo. 25 Fighter Squadron, North Weald. Blenheim.
1 AprilNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Northolt. Blenheim. P/Off.
2 AprilNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Manston. Blenheim.
14 MayNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Northolt. Blenheim.
20 JuneNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Manston. Blenheim.
24 AugustNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Hornchurch. Blenheim.
9 SeptemberNo. 600 City of London Squadron, Redhill. Blenheim.
24 OctoberNo. 600 City of London Squadron, B Flight. Drem (Scotland). Blenheim
194114 JanuaryNo. 68 Sqdn (Forming). Flt.Cdr. Catterick. Flt/Lt. Blenheim.
20 AprilNo. 68 Sqdn. Flt.Cdr. High Ercall. Blenheim, Beaufighter.
1 JulyHeadquarters No. 9 Group Staff. Sqd.Ldr.
30 DecemberNo. 96 Sqdn. Wrexham to Command. Defiant. Sqdn Ldr.
194325 MarchHeadquarters Fighter Command, Staff. Bentley Priory.
12 JuneNo. 54 Night Operational Training Unit. Wg. Cdr. Charter Hall.
19441 JanuaryNo. 488 New Zealand Night-Fighter Sqdn. Bradwell, Hunsdon, Colerne Zeals.
23 OctoberHeadquartes No. 85 Tactical Group Brussels, Ghent.
30 OctoberFRU Odiham. Test Pilot.
29 DecemberNo. 147 Wing. Ibsley, Ghent.
19451 MarchNo. 54 OTU. Charter Hall. Winfield. (OC)
17 MayRAF Eshott. Spitfire O.T.U. To Command.
5 JuneNo. 302 Wing. Ibsley. SOA. (For Overseas)
5 SeptemberRAF. Kai Tak. To Command.
29 SeptemberMilitary Governors Staff. Hong Kong. Air Adviser.
194624 JanuaryKai Tak. Officer commanding Flying.
20 AugustNo. 200 Staging Post Shanghai. Temp. Officer Commanding.
5 SeptemberHeadquarters Far East Air Force Changi Staff (Squadron Leader).
19485 JanuaryAir Fighting Development Squadron, Central Fighter
Establishment RAF West Raynham.
19501 MayInternational Staff College, Andover.
19519 AprilAir Ministry Air Staff Policy 3. Whitehall. Wing Commander.
195423 MayNo. 209 AFS Weston Zoyland Jet refresher.
1954JulyNo. 233 OCU, Pembrey Vampire Refresher.
25 SeptemberRAF Habbaniyah (Iraq) O.C. Flying and O.C. No. 128 Wing.
195619 DecemberRAF Turnhouse (Edinburgh) To Command. Wg.Cdr.
19592 JuneRAF Akrotiri (Cyprus) O.C. Admin. Wing.
196214 DecemberStaff Officer Flying. Ministry of Aviation London. Gp.Capt.
196417 AugustNo. 242 OCU Hastings Conversion Course.
12 SeptemberRAF Lindholme Bomber Command Bombing School. To Command.
19664 NovemberHeadquarters Bomber/Strike Command High Wycombe. SPSO.
196921 JulyHeadquarters Training Command. Group Captain Org. Brampton.
CHAPTER ONE
My Family

1916 to 1934

I was born in the midst of that other dreadful war. In 1917 the news of the horrors of Ypres and the Somme were being received at home with incredulity and despair. The frightening casualties suffered during the taking of Paschendaele Ridge brought home the horrors of the war in the trenches in France, and now, at home, rumours were rife that the German airships had dropped bombs on British soil. Indeed, it was revealed that for months the Zeppelins had freely roamed the night skies of England unchallenged, and on one night alone as many as fourteen had been reported over the home counties. The physical damage and casualties they inflicted were comparatively slight, but there was something uniquely horrible about these great dark menacing craft cruising almost silently above the English countryside. I was spared that feeling of terror, for I was only one year old at the time, but in later years any mention of Zeppelins encouraged me to tell an amusing family story in which I jokingly used to claim that I was a casualty of the First World War.

Old Eckits, the loyal and willing family retainer, although getting on and a bit slow, was only too glad to do anything that was asked of her. One Sunday morning, my parents had gone to church, asking Eckits to put the Sunday roast in the oven at noon, and at the same time keep an eye on the two baby boys. On returning home, as they approached the gate they heard a loud explosion, and to their horror were met by the sight of Eckits, her face blackened, her hair singed and in disarray, rushing out of the back door with a screaming child, equally be-sooted, clutched under each arm. The Zeppelins have come, the Zeppelins have come!, her hysterical shouts setting the dogs off barking. While Mother tried to calm the victims and settle the dogs, Father rushed into the house to turn off the gas oven before there was another explosion.

I was the baby of the family, and as well as the other casualty, my young brother, there was an older son and three girls in the family. Father had founded, and now ran, a small builders merchant firm in Gloucester. It was a hard struggle in the Depression following the war, but through considerable personal efforts he managed to keep the Firm alive, and in later years he was able to hand over to his eldest son a thriving company with excellent prospects. My second brother Mike was the brainy one, and understandably was favoured by my parents to go to university. Even in his schooldays he showed considerable interest and ability in electronics and physics, and he graduated later with a doctorate in electronic engineering. He became Director of the AEI Research Laboratory at Harlow and was Director of their Laboratory at Aldermaston, from where he visited the United States of America during the Second World War in connection with the current experimentation with nuclear physics. Back at Harlow he worked with a colleague in his laboratory and became the co-inventor of the electron microscope, an example of which can now be seen in the London Science Museum. His outstanding abilities were clearly a hard act to follow, but fortunately I, his younger brother, had no aspirations in the field of either business or electronics, and my preordained course was clearly defined in my mind. I was going to fly, and this ambition transcended all else. In those early days I must admit I would not have believed, even in my wildest dreams, that one day I would be one of the Few in the Battle of Britain, would be shot down in Holland and would return to England with a Queen, and at the end of my flying career would have flown more than a hundred different types of aircraft.

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