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Errol Cavit wrote:
(ANDREW ROBERT BREEN) wrote in message ...
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It wouldn't suprise me in the slightest - there were some deeply silly
things done in those days (a friend of my father's - a guy I met in his
older, more sensible days - got posted out to the far east after flying a
Sea Gladiator *underneath* the balcony of the admiral's house in IIRC
Durban - the house *was* on a cliff and I think the "underneath" was the
admiral looking down on the top wing, but still..).

ISTR reading a similar story in a FAA pilot's memoirs. IIRC the
carrier was heading to the Far East, and the pilot decided to give his
girlfriend in Capetown(?) a farewell flypast - not realising who daddy
was.

If the book was "Carrier Pilot" by Norman Hanson, that's the man.

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Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group
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"Who dies with the most toys wins" (Gary Barnes)