It looks like most of the traffic on the road was heavy, even stationary. What a damn shame.

Yes.

It is also a clock – not a lump of metal.
Clocks do sometimes stop working and if being sold as working – would prompt stopping of the sale until it was repaired.

But perhaps I am being too generous.

Bliss.

Glad the pilot is OK.
Some daft comments earlier in the thread about risk etc.
In the broad scheme of things, a Spitfire is just an overpowered Light Aircraft. Given similar pilot skill, Forced Landings are predicated on terrain and landing speed – and not a little sheer luck. There really isn’t that much difference in the landing / stall speed of a C152 and a Spitfire.
‘High energy’ is gobbledygook in the context of landing/take-off incident. If it goes-in like a tentpeg at speed, the result will be the same for both types.
During their service life, many pilots walked-away from engine failures in Spits and similar a/c – they are pretty robust compared with a C152. (Which often end-up inverted as they have a fixed u/c…!).
It’ll be interesting to see what went wrong with the donk.

Glad to see more of this important type being built – more importantly, it’s encouraging to see that money can still be raised for such projects – without which nothing ever progresses beyond mere aspiration. Talk is cheap – aeroplanes are not.
There is no possible correlation between other types being built/rebuilt and restored Spitfires of course. (Maybe the folk making digs at the Spitfires may wish to fund the rebuilding/building of some other types currently missing from the airworthy fleet. A Mosquito would be a nice start. I look forward to reading their progress reports.)
Hat’s off to Rimowa for walking the walk and getting a design back into the air. An aeroplane is something that flies – we already have enough dead aeroplanes. 😮

Gosh. No wonder they were sports teachers.

Another interesting offering here;-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nczjl