Close enough 😃 Bet he wasnt expecting that. The pilots are some of the best and know what they are doing with room to spare.
Those remanufactured and rebuilt Spits perform very well even today. About 200 of us were treated last year to a personal display, the sound of those Merlins, awesome. Its the tone when speeding up, especially when as high as 15ft overhead.
When Britain was Great.