Burwell man builds Spitfire simulator in his shed

A man has spent £30,000 and two-and-a-half years building a replica fighter aircraft in his shed.

Kenneth Mockford, 59, from Burwell in Cambridgeshire, took on the challenge to construct a Spitfire simulator during the Covid lockdowns.

He has also built replicas of an F35 fighter jet, Lynx helicopter and a Boeing 737 plane, and allows people to fly them at his base in Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Mr Mockford, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 40, said: "I look at it as a superpower. I describe autism as the ability to see more detail than the average person sees."

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