Classic British Flight Sim

The original first flight date for the Spitfire was uncertain as the only known record was Mutt Summers logbook, which had an ambiguous entry. When a contractor was clearing a BAe office building decades later, he spotted some documents dumped in a skip which included a factory document clarifying the actual first flight date. I believe the documents were passed to a museum for safer keeping than BAe had bothered to maintain.

One urban legend about the flight was that Mutt had stated something along the lines of, “Don’t touch anything” when he got out of the plane. This simply meant that he wanted to carry on with initial testing with the plane as he had left it. It did not mean that the plane was perfect from the off, as some over-enthusiastic souls have proclaimed down the years.