Editing Hawker Typhoon (section)

===Captured Typhoons===
By 1943, with its change of role to ground attack, the Typhoon was constantly operating over enemy territory: inevitably some flyable examples fell into German hands. The first Typhoon to be flown by the ''Luftwaffe'' was ''EJ956'' SA-I of 486 (NZ) Sqn. On 23 March 1943, two aircraft flown by [[Flying officer|F/O]] Smith and [[Flight sergeant|F/S]] Mawson were on a "Rhubarb" over France.{{refn|A "Rhubarb" was a small scale attack on enemy ground targets of opportunity. Usually, these were undertaken by a section of two aircraft. Ideally, there would be a heavy cloud base at {{convert|2,000|–|3,000|ft|m|abbr=on}}; should fighter opposition be too heavy it would be possible to pull up into the cloud.|group=nb}} Just as they were crossing the coast at low altitude, Mawson's Typhoon was hit by light flak. He managed to belly-land in a field near Cany-Barville but the aircraft was captured before he could destroy it. The Typhoon was repaired and test flown at [[Rechlin]] a German equivalent to [[RAE Farnborough]], and later served as T9+GK with "[[Zirkus Rosarius]]". EJ956 overturned and was written off during a forced landing near Meckelfeld, on 10 August 1944.<ref name="Thomas and Shores 1988">Thomas and Shores 1988</ref><ref name="Sortehaug"/> On 14 February 1944, another Typhoon was captured and later flown in Zirkus Rosarius. JP548 of [[No. 174 Squadron RAF|174 Squadron]] force landed after engine failure near Blois, France; the pilot, F/O Proddow, evaded capture. This Typhoon crashed at Reinsehlen on 29 July 1944, killing Feldwebel Gold.<ref name="Thomas and Shores 1988"/>