The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave the British a decisive ... Joe Smith developed the fighter to make it faster ...

Commonwealth pilots scrambled from British airfields, flying their Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft, hoping to thwart Hitler’s plan. Among nearly 3,000 aircrew in that first test of Allied ...

Ross Pay, chairman of Hunter Fighter Collection, says Hughes’ aircraft will arguably be the most historically valuable Spitfire to fly again. Seeking donations and corporate sponsorship ...

On the eve of this great battle for England's survival as a free country, the British could muster only 26 Hurricane I squadrons. In addition to Hurricanes, there were 19 Supermarine Spitfire ...

Italian and Canadian WWII aircraft production is surprisingly comparable (not adjusting for the time spent at war).

Harry Curd Bennett, 27, was a Spitfire fighter pilot with 406 Lynx Squadron ... England; everyone on both planes died. Bennett was the son of George and Annie Bennett of Moose Jaw and the husband of ...

Get all the latest aviation news from Simple Flying! As these are all dedicated long-haul transatlantic routes, British Airways exclusively serves these routes with a fleet of widebody aircraft, all ...

ALBAWABA- US-British aircraft launched two raids on Bajil District in Yemen's coastal province of Hodeidah, escalating tensions in the region. Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, in a televised ...

That's common with military as well as civilian aircraft, and one of the strangest designs that made it to production is the Edgley Optica. The Edgley EA-7 Optica is a British aircraft designed ...

The iconic P-51 Mustang *Swamp Fox*, painted in tribute to Lt. Col. Will Foard, a young USAAF lieutenant during World War II, ...