Forty years on, his latest passion is flying. " Right now, I'm doing a very complicated [pilot's] examination," he says. "I've been at it for two weeks, virtually non-stop and it's a real brain-bang. I'm really annoyed with myself for not being able to grasp it quickly enough. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or who you are, you've got to know what you're doing. It's interesting because you can't buy it. Well, you could buy it if you had a bent examiner, I suppose."