“I am a war child; I was born just before the European conflict began in 1937 … Europe looked like a pile of junk; it was completely destroyed, and in that landscape lay all these dead war machines. I lived across from a large airfield full of dead airplanes. So all we did, me and my gang, was to go and forage these airplanes … .and this was basically my obsession from the age of eight to about the age of ten. I believe that this interest in machines has been imprinted on me since that early time. I continue to do the same as I did then. I drive around the southwest of the United States and stop at the graveyards of airplanes and look at what’s in them, this vast, vast area of dead airplanes, each with its own secrets.”