My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
“We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.”
“I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.”