Swidnik SW4

It is a gray November day in Lublin, Poland, and the view from the hotel window offers little hope that we will be able to accomplish our test flight of the PZL SW-4. Rain, low cloud and visibility only as far as the next block of houses suggest that I might as well enjoy an unhurried breakfast before returning to my room to catch up on work. But at eight o’clock sharp the driver is waiting, and he announces that the weather will sort itself out, although we have seventy kilometres to drive and that will take a while....