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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4402, 14 March 1941, Page 2

At an Air Force station in England, where a number of Polish pilots are serving with the Royal Air Force, one of them took off with a mechanic still on the tail of the plane. A good exhibition of flying followed, but the machine was almost uncontrollable. By clever use of the engine the pilot succeeded in bringing the aircraft round and landing without hurt to himself, although the mechanic was thrown off as the machine landed. He had to be sent to hospital with minor injuries. The pilot, wtho was unaware of his passenger, remarked as he stepped out: “ This machine is a little unstable.” In Poland he had been engaged in testing unstable or “ rogue ” machines, and this fact, no doubt, saved both himself and his unwilling passenger from disaster.