Gary Numan chats to I Like Music

ILM: I can't quite believe it but it's your 50th birthday next year - how will you be celebrating? Any plans to do a loop the loop in your plane?

GARY: [laughs] No, I actually sold my plane a year and a half ago. I wasn't flying it enough to justify the cost of having it. I used to do air displays, I was an aerobatic display pilot and all the people I used to fly with, every single one of them except for one of them was killed in different crashes. The nature of it, what used to a really exciting elitist kind of thing actually became a bit sad. You'd go to an airfield and all your friends were dead, it was just a weird feeling. It was a particular day that it hit me and I thought, 'I think I've had enough of this actually.' I loved the flying and being in a plane but there was more to it than that, there was the whole social side and a lot of good friends I'd had. And one day something clicked and I thought, 'I'm done with this now'. I miss it, but everyone I know had gone. The only other person who was part of my close friendship who wasn't dead wasn't doing it anymore either, he had pulled out himself. It is very dangerous and people die doing it every year.
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