[simpits-tech] OT, car launch

[Roy Coates]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Sean Galbraith wrote:

> Still reckon the piano off the No1 Cat on Ark Royal is better.....
> Apparently some quite intoxicated fighter pilots "obtained" a piano while
> in Sydney Australia, anyway the ship's captain decided that as it was not
> on the books it had to go, so they fired it off the Cat with all the pomp
> and ceremony of a naval burial at sea... very cool, seen the video :)
>

My brother was the the ark - I can well believe it!

Roy.