After two long months of grueling air combat between invading Luftwaffe fighters and bombers and the notably smaller British Royal Air Force, England’s pilots were exhausted. Some British pilots, many ...

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British fighter aircraft used by the RAF and many other Allied countries during World War Two. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was ...

Peter 'Mr Spitfire' Arnold spent 20 years restoring an incomplete Spitfire F Mk 22. After his death, PK519 sold for ...

As brutal as it may have been, the Second World War has a strange hold on many of us who didn’t actually get to experience it firsthand, but share a passion for mechanical things. That’s because the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “No aircraft is as hallowed as the Spitfire,” Holland concludes. For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting ...

During the Battle of Britain, perhaps the most fraught moment in the UK’s history, the Spitfire performed admirably. The Supermarine Spitfire is arguably the most accomplished, and most celebrated, ...

On this day in aviation history, 84 years ago (April 15, 1942), the Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb tropical flew for the first time. A tropical variant of the highly successful British fighter, this ...

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Now sitting outside the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall, it is to be auctioned on the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain. Auction house Christie's expects the fighter, whose ...