This Nova Scotian's dad flew a Spitfire during WW II. He just went to Poland to see it

When Brian Mann was a little kid growing up in Cape Breton, N.S., he'd sometimes wear his dad’s Second World War flying goggles, look up at the sky and imagine flying his dad’s Spitfire plane. At a museum in Poland in June, he got to sit in its cockpit.

This Nova Scotian's dad flew a Spitfire during WW II. He just went to Poland to see it
Two photos, taken more than eight decades apart, show a father and son sitting in the same Spitfire plane that father Ed Mann flew in the Second World War.

When Brian Mann was a little kid growing up in Cape Breton, N.S., he'd sometimes wear his dad’s Second World War flying goggles, look up at the sky and imagine flying his dad’s Spitfire plane. At a museum in Poland in June, he got to sit in its cockpit.