In the footsteps of Bader

Sgt Alan Robinson after his successful first solo flight in the Boultbee Flight Academy’s Spitfire IXT SM520. ALL PHOTOS ANDY ANNABLE/BOULTBEE Just as in World War Two, a potentially life-changing disability may be no barrier to flying solo in a Spitfire. Thanks to the Boultbee Flight Academy and its Spitfire Scholarship, RAF serviceman Alan Robinson has proved exactly that AMPUTEE SOLOS A SPITFIRE ‘‘A little over five years ago l woke up in a hospital bed to find my leg