Ned,
Thanks for the photos, they have brought great memories of a great day
The Spitfire is a full dual control machine, so it was a flight made even better by getting to actually drive the legend, including wingovers, rolls and loops. Light on pitch, but heavy on roll, it was fine to fly, but I admit to needing a bit more currency on aerobatics
The pilot was an ex RAF Chinook/Wessex driver, Dave "Rats" Ratcliffe, who seemed to enjoy the trip as much as me. He used the O2 mask just for noise attenuation, it's like sitting inside a Fergie tractor engine half the time: the battery in my ANR gave up half way through the flight, which gave a good excuse for some heading errors
A couple more photos:
