The exhaust stacks indicate it’s a turboprop.

The most brilliant Fat Lady carnival act is when you don’t actually have to produce the Fat Lady. 

Obviously it was a 3-point landing, and very likely the brakes were not applied until low speed. Both are excellent techniques in the Spitfire.

I’ve been there too, in fly-by photo formations. It can work, but the photographer has to have everything organized.

This was a fly-by, not a stable formation. (The Sabre was too heavy at this stage of the mission.)

Hang on, hang on, we haven’t flown it yet. That was a taxi and brake test. (I mentioned it in the Description section of the video.)

The first flight will happen when it happens — soon I hope, but April in Canada is a month of rain and high winds. And Gatineau only has one runway.

Plus, we want the owner to be there for it (to fly Chase amongst other things), and he has a busy schedule.

It’s all quite brilliant — the Fat Lady carnival act without ever having to produce the Fat Lady. 

It should be featured in business-school degree programs.

Really, we should send them all our money forever and ever merely as a mark of respect for such promotional expertise.