A flight commemorating the Battle of Britain is set to top the bill at a seaside town's famous airshow this summer. Taking to ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

Josef František joined the Czechoslovak Air Force. By 1940, he was flying for the RAF and topping the ace charts during the ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, who died on St Patrick’s Day aged 105, was the last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain. Born in ...

The Luftwaffe launched a large scale attack ... Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

After he had opened fire, Hemingway questioned whether “he was doing the right thing – were we now in a shooting war?” [ Battle of Britain pilot at 100: ‘The only advice I can give to ...

When the war started he was up in a single-seat Hurricane fighter plane and, although the Spitfire would dominate the mythology of the Battle of Britain, it was the Hurricane, with its powerful ...

Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is set to take to the skies in Clacton with the celebrated Supermarine Spitfire – which ...

On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked ... to smash up German war power (especially aircraft industry) on the ground; to bleed the Luftwaffe white in grinding ...