Originally Posted by
flyingfemme
No reason it should be particularly difficult or expensive, assuming the donk keeps going. Avgas supply is probably the most challenging aspect but the route looks like they will have drop tanks to make the long legs, so there will be some flex in there.
It's the hourly cost of a Spitfire plus the very large amounts of expensive AvGas it'll need that I was thinking of, as well as support aircraft and team. Well over half a million I'm guessing. That might be cheap to some but, to someone like me who pays for my own flying, that's pretty expensive!