A decorated Windsor airman who spent hundreds of hours flying a Spitfire in the Second World War was posthumously celebrated ...

Only one other RAF pilot had received the latter honor before Tuck did. The Supermarine Spitfire endures today as one of the legendary fighter planes of World War II. Its aerodynamic qualities and ...

The Battle of Britain was a turning point in WWII—and at its heart was a sleek new fighter and a farm boy from Australia. The video traces the birth of the Spitfire, from an experimental monoplane to ...

Interestingly, some Spitfire pilots even modified their aircraft ... Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire.

One of the last surviving female pilots from World War II has died on the British Isle ... during the war, delivering Spitfire and bomber aircraft to British military officers on the frontlines.

An extremely rare World War II Spitfire fighter plane flown by a pilot who later took part in the "Great Escape" has been recovered from a remote Norwegian mountainside. Specially equipped for ...

Pilot Robert Tomlinson taxies in the AA810 Spitfire at RAF Wick, Scotland, on January 29, 1942, in the only known photograph of the aircraft. Just five weeks after this picture was taken ...

ONE of the last remaining Spitfire pilots of the Second World War, Peter “Jock” Taylor, who lived in Hanbury Park, Worcester, has died at the age of 99, turning another page in one of the ...

The RAF pilot who died while flying a Spitfire at a Battle of Britain event has been named. Squadron Leader Mark Long was behind the controls of the World War II-era plane that hurtled to earth in ...

LONDON — A former Royal Air Forces pilot has taken to the skies in a Spitfire at 102 years old ... is believed to be the oldest pilot to fly the World War II plane. His 20-minute flight Monday ...

A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident ...