My favourite Flypast article of all time was the one covering the restoration of his MK XIV Spitifre G-FIRE. Must have read it 10 times. And I absolutely loved it when he talked about people moaning because it wasn’t being painted in it’s original colour scheme “When they have bought and restored their own Spitfire they can paint it whatever colour they like!” .
From memory (with the mention of the approach light” he was on approach with the engine still running and would have made it but the engine seized……almost made it.