Hullo Franek . . .. was not Douglas Bader, when he bailed out over the Channel, brought down by a 109?
By the way, have you ever heard of Henry Millicer, who won an international design competition in 1953, a design that became the Victa Airtourer, a popular aerobatic basic trainer?
Wiki -
Henry Millicer (1915-1996) was born in
Warsaw, Poland, the son of Kazimierz Milicer, a university professor whose family was descended from Baron Karl von Militzer. An ardent Polish patriot, Henry developed an early interest in aviation. In 1924 he won an aeromodelling competition with the prize being a flight over
Warsaw, his home city. At age 14 he built a full-size glider and at 17 qualified as a glider pilot. After receiving a degree in aeronautical engineering he worked as a junior designer in the National Aviation Works (
Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze) on the
PZL.37 Łoś bomber project headed by
Jerzy Dąbrowski and later for the
RWD company on the
RWD-25 low-wing, fixed-wheels fighter project. He was also a member of the
Polish Air Force reserve and flew against the Germans at the outbreak of the
Second World War, winning the Polish Air Force Cross. At the defeat of Poland in September 1939, he was given the responsibility of ferrying the presidential papers in a small plane to Romania, then escaped to France and England where he flew in a Polish bomber squadron in the
Royal Air Force. He completed seventeen missions before being seriously wounded in a training exercise. He was awarded the Polish Military Medal for his service and became an interpreter between Polish, French and British pilots. In 1941 he married Warsaw-born Krystyna Paciorkowska, the daughter of the Polish politician Jerzy Paciorkowski.