Can we get this back to the 91 year old Spitfire?
It's now 2011 and the first prototype flew in March 1936 - correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that 75 years.
I suppose they could be talking about the pilot . . .
Back to reality, hope there is some resolution here, he thoroughly deserves that.
Just perhaps, he assumed today's RAF was like the one he used to be in. Sadly in this and so many other cases, it was a wrong assumption; completely understandable, but wrong.
It's a real shame.