Probably the most daring of all of the great escapes from La Santé was that of Michel Vaujour in 1986, whose wife, Nadine, swooped into the courtyard to snatch him up in a helicopter she was piloting.
The charity is also now piloting a group play therapy programme in Gaza.
What is even more exciting is the agreement, but also the echo to do things differently; to stop piloting and go to scale with what works (and there is already a lot that works); and to treat agriculture, including smallholder agriculture, as a business.
Thanks to the cameras, it was possible to glimpse all sorts of revealingly human moments: the sweat on the brow of a pallbearer after piloting the coffin up the steps of St Paul's; the sudden, muttered aside of the Queen to the Duke of Edinburgh as the coffin itself passed by; the concentration on the face of a boy-treble as the choir sang the anthem from the Fauré Requiem.
Waltham Forest council has been piloting the scheme in five primary schools with large Muslim intakes.
(The picture is better in Wales, and particularly so in Scotland, but Northern Ireland is only just piloting the idea).
This scenario is a lot closer than we may think as several companies have started piloting corporate wellness programmes.
This means piloting stints of some four to five days at a time.
At the same time, a small plane he was piloting suffered engine failure.
Despite his inexperience, he showed skill in piloting a recent merger of two rival right-of-centre parties, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives.
Already the first mobile phones allowing Internet access are on sale, and one bank, the Woolwich, is piloting mobile Internet banking.
