Asking a woman by cellular phone, whether she would marry you? How unromantic! The 'V' as in Victory in the background picture shows that at least it was successful. As a matter of fact, since I don't own a cellular, I had to rent one. But those of you who know Harry a bit can imagine that there was more to it. Planned in February 1997, the special day didn't come until July 31, 1997: Anne-Sylvie was kidnapped by Stefan and Sabine (see guest list) and lead to a lookout hill near the lake of Constance, about an hour outside of Zurich (she didn't guess what was going on). In the mean time, I took a Stearman double-decker from the 30ies out of a hangar of a plane museum (with machines that still fly, of course) - together with a Swissair captain who knows this plane well. Once in the air and flying by the location of Anne-Sylvie, I called her by cellular phone, telling her that it was me in this antique aircraft and that I wanted to show her something. Hanging up and stowing the phone well, we produced two successive loopings - turning
on the built-in smoke producing machine - followed by a question mark (which didn't turn as clearly as the drawing might suggest...). Calling Anne-Sylvie again, I told her that these were two rings and a question mark, signifying my wanting to marry her. In the open cockpit I was unable to hear her on the phone. But that actually didn't matter, since she had two signal flares - one red, one green. I counted on the green launch and - fortunately - I was right!