"From that moment on I knew I wanted to fly, " says Lowy, who soon had airplane wallpaper in his bedroom and a vast collection of model airplanes and trading cards.
The British Museum has been a place of pilgrimage for Perry since he was a child -- though he admits to a sense of disappointment on his first visit, because the model boats in the Egyptian collection were not as shiny and new as the cars he played with at home.