mikehallam,
Lovely ! Thanks for the link, what a well preserved old boy - and what a story !I hope that everybody who saw it stayed with the following youtube item, too: "The Last Aircraft to be built at Filton" - a rebuild of a Spitfire IX. Magic !
Never flew the Mk. IX - reckoned to be the best of the Merlin Spits - but had a few hundred hours on the Mk. XVI - the exact same thing, but with the General Motors "Packard Merlin" replacing the Rolls-Royce. Couldn't tell the difference.
At Valley, 20 Sqdn, 1950-51. Happy days !
Danny.