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Golf 3, Oscar, Delta Papa returning. No, no. I was into flying all my life until I was 45 when I had a stroke and that took away the license never to return. But the cost of light aircraft, the other side of the pond, is significantly cheaper than the cost of a light aircraft in the UK. In the US, light aircraft are pretty much an everyday way of life where here it's an expensive hobby. So it's priced accordingly. I mean in the States you can get a pretty good aircraft for the price of a pretty good used car. And so it saved me about 50% on the purchase price. Also, I was very comfortable with the fact that I had much more choice in America, much more choice. So not only was it a very long solo flight, it was with a single engine as well, which shows my younger days perhaps were a little more fearless. So it was just a big fuel tank, me, and let's get going. But it saved me half the price of an aircraft. And at one stage I was going to buy a boat and sail it across as well. But now I'm just an old guy with all these wonderful memories.