I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.