To be precise, none of these are flying with their original engines, as they are all re-engined Buchons.

Didn’t one of them appear at a RIAT some years back?

If you look at photos of their workshop, they have three (the ex-Hans Dittes one, and their own D-FMBB, as well as ‘Red 7’), from which they struggle to keep just one airworthy on occasion. A difficult undertaking.

Aeroplane is full of Cold War Jets stuff already, China overflights and B-58s in the last issue, F-4 and Gnats in this one. Pages and pages full of shiny tin paraffin burners.

Are there any active PPL holders here who, if you won that amount of money in a lottery, would spend it on such a type?

…and then strut around in a grobag covered in ‘Spitfire’ patches.

Horrible little pretend wannabe Spitfires for poseurs.

Nothing is wrong with it, as such. It is made from wood, covered with metal, and is a nice representation of the type. It is not, however, a second survivor of the type, replica, or anything other than a full-sized model/lookalike.

Or maybe they want to keep the scheme secret for a ‘big reveal’?

Unfortunately modern airfields with defined runways are far less suitable for the operation of this type of aircraft.

The airfield concerned is not a modern airfield, it has been there since before the war. It has a perfectly usable cross runway, at 90 degrees to the main runway, which was used by the Pup which landed a minute or two before the Triplane.