SSD,
Why you say that there wasn't much left of the R-R Spit that crashed at Woodford, and yes that is the aircraft I was refering to?
In fact, although the fabric off the control surfaces burned away, as did some of the tail ribs, everything else is still extant. And there's a surprising amount of that still useable. So, when MN-E finally comes out of the shed, it'll still be significantly MN-E.
On the subject of flying Spitfires, althiough they are significantly different from modern types, they are one of the easiest warbirds to fly and operate. After all, if they were difficult, they wouldn't have built 20 odd thousand of them, they wouldn't have lasted 10 years in production over a world war, and most importantly, they wouldn't have been so successful in combat in the hands of the average British teenager............
Bye for now,
A