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I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.