00:01When people come here, the first words that they normally say when they come
00:05through the door is, wow, I didn't expect this to be here. How did you make this
00:10thing? So I started in 2012 with the building of a 737-800NG in a shed at
00:16home and all the neighbors wanted to fly and they started contributing to my time,
00:22which then led on to me thinking about starting this up as a business. Best way
00:27to build the Spitfire is to get the original blueprints, make the component
00:32in a 3D system, a drawing system, and then develop the components to bring them out
00:38in a 3D printer and things like that, resin printing, CNC machining. Everything on the
00:45instrument panel has been handmade because you can't get the component, well you can
00:52get the components, but you can't get them so they work with flight simulators.
00:56So I had to make each component for flight simulation. The Spitfire sim reset,
01:03it takes about five minutes after a significant impact because it's got to
01:08reload all the scenery, reconfigure everything. You'll probably end up at the
01:13airport that you took off from. The other great thing about the Spitfire that I've
01:17got here, it does shoot. We have several scenarios where you have some enemy
01:24aircraft that are out to get you. So the Spitfire build has taken about two to two
01:30and a half years. The difficulty I've had is going through each specific component,
01:38having to draw it up and then make it. So that's where at some points through the
01:43build I was definitely questioning my decision to build it. So I'm just a nutter engineer really,
01:51that I can't be doing nothing. I've got to do something. I have high functioning autism
01:58and that means don't leave me alone otherwise I'll start making something or
02:03taking something apart.
02:05Take a break.
02:07Take a break.
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