January 14th 1940

Drove out with C.O. in his car to the forced landed aircraft. Little damage done, the field was 400 paces long and the lowest hedge 15ft at the end. The C.O. could not make up his mind whether to fly it out or not. In the end we decided to have it dismantled and taken away. Directly we got back to camp we took a Battle out and while he took off I watched at 400 of his paces up wind - he did the same for me. Both of us got it about 10ft off the ground only at 400 paces - almost yards.