Bruce Dickinson: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Bruce Dickinson said elsewhere, not written here

A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

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Alison Moyet English singer

A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

Dominic Cooper English actor

My Austin Healey.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2017 source ↗

Emily Mortimer British actress

My children’s education.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 October 2020 source ↗

Jeremy Vine English presenter and journalist

My penny farthing. It was £1,200. I’ve ridden it to Buckingham Palace and back.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗