Alex James learns to fly a Spitfire

Telegraph columnist and Blur bassist Alex James fulfills a lifelong dream flying a Spitfire. Alex was given the chance to join the Boultbee Academy, a Goodwood based flying school that compresses as much as possible of what actual trainee spitfire pilots learned, into a twoday course. Teaching begins, just as it did in the Thirties and Forties with a Tiger Moth, progressing to a more powerful Harvard before moving on to the Spitfire on day two.