did you ever fly the first aircraft that you created and did you create the first aircraft.

Question: did you ever fly the first aircraft that you created and did you create the first aircraft.
- Keywords:
  aircraft,
  flight
Asked by johncl to Sir Geoffrey de Havilland on 4 Dec 2018.
- Sir Geoffrey de Havilland answered on 4 Dec 2018:
  
  I can’t claim to have created the first ever aircraft, that would be the Wright brothers.
  
  However they inspired me to build my own aircraft, which I built with money from my Grandfather.
  
  It took me two years to build and then I accidentally crashed it during it’s first very short flight near Litchfield, Hampshire.