Spitfire pilot saved a German man whose plane he’d shot downSpitfire pilot saved a German man whose plane he’d shot down ...

An historic Spitfire that downed a German aircraft during the Second World War before starring in a string of hit Hollywood films in the 1960s is set to go under the hammer this weekend for a ...

The Spitfire remained in production until 1948 ... with over 400 participating. French-German aircraft designer Claudius Dornier, who was 27 at the time, designed the first all-metal plane ...

adoc-photos//Getty Images The tail of a German bomber being chased by an RAF Hawker Hurricane, 1939. It wouldn’t be until more than a month later that a Spitfire pilot would score the aircraft ...

Seventy-eight years ago, RCAF pilot Harold ‘Hal’ Kramer crashed his Spitfire fighter plane in a marshy field ... Somehow, he managed to avoid capture from German troops that surrounded him.

Interestingly, some Spitfire pilots even modified their aircraft to deliver beer to troops ... silhouette of the British fighter from German BF-109s, particularly the squared wing-tip ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World ... better organised RAF had defeated the Luftwaffe and downed 1,887 German planes. The RAF lost 1,023 planes. Man walked 250,000 steps in a week ...

Sales of German tanks and ships have also outstripped ... The most popular RAF planes are the Supermarine Spitfire, the De Havilland Mosquito, the Hawker Hurricane and the Avro Lancaster.

However, there is one often overlooked fighter plane that helped turn the ... Although the Hurricane could turn faster than the German Bf 109 and the Spitfire, it was slow at climbing and inferior ...

She shot down a German ME 109 over Arnhem, Netherlands, during Operation Market Garden. Fly a Spitfire, a company which owns the plane, said in a statement on social media that the pilot made a ...