“If I splurge on anything it would be a helicopter. At one stage I owned three.”
What was your first job?
When I left school at 15 I was an apprentice electrical fitter. I had quite a bit of knowledge about electronics but they used the apprentices on the production line doing assembly work. It was completely monotonous in a big tin-roofed building and in January 1959 the heat was staggering. It was an incredibly difficult job and I only lasted two and a half weeks. I went back
