Gremlin Stuff

P: An R.A.F. Ferry Command plane was 4,000 feet above Montreal when Harry Griffiths, 20, a civilian employe, fell through an open bomb bay. Griffiths grabbed a bay door and hung on, but could not pull himself back into the plane. Pilot Sidney Gerow, unable to leave the controls and help Griffiths, swooped low over frozen Lake St. Louis and snouted: "Let go!" Griffiths fell 30 feet, slid along the ice, got up and walked away--bruised, frostbitten, unharmed.

P: Four R.A.F. aircraftsmen (ground crewmen) tugged and shoved at a Spitfire bogged in the sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail--no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip stream kept me pinned to the tail fairly well, but I don't think I could have held on for more than 100 miles."

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