ValMORNA,
My Google won't bring your reference up (probably just me !), but looked at the You Tube on offer, confirmed what I thought: this has been on Thread but long, long ago. I had always thought that it was a Lt.Col. Baines, but as soon as I saw the man I recognised him as Col. Blyth. He was very complimentary about the Spitfire, and I can endorse his remark to the effect that "everybody should have the chance to fly a Spitfire"
He got his USAAC wings about the same time as I did (I went to an "Arnold" School), and his tale of spending a half-hour over Berlin in '44, making sure he got all his pictures, is worth a look. He got a well deserved US DFC for it.
Now will some kind soul please look at the early Spitfire (5.30 on film) and tell me what is the ringlike thing on the vertical fin ?
D.