About 30 years ago I was fortunate enough to sit in the cockpit of a fully restored Spitfire Mk22, when I was a teenager, just as I was beginning my military flying training (in completely different aircraft, I should add ....). It gave me renewed enthusiasm to suceed as a military pilot, and I did. Sadly, the Spit Mk22 was later destroyed in a fatal flying accident. The pilot/operator of the Spit had grown up with my mother .....
