One reason that people may assume the Spitfire was so prolific in the early stages of World War II may be due to the 1968 film Battle of Britain.Far more Spitfires were available for filming, and ...

Equipped with torpedoes, speed and agility, the CMB made for a highly efficient attack boat during WWI and beyond, influencing high-speed boat design across the world, including the much larger ...

But then, if flying is your thing, what could possibly compare with piloting a Spitfire? And I don't just mean sitting in one as a passenger. I mean taking the controls of a wartime Spitfire Mk IX ...

John Romain explains how his team restored the Mark I Spitfire A rare example of one of the world's most iconic aircraft, a Mark 1 Spitfire that was painstakingly restored after being shot down ...

I was outside with about five of my mates when we heard plane noises above us. Upon looking up I saw a spitfire and a German Plane in a dog fight. You could see the planes diving about in the sky.

For the protection of spitfires on the ground,U shaped bays of earth were built of banks of earth about eight feet high.Each spitfire was allocated to a particular one,and there were always airmen ...

One of the last surviving Dutch Spitfire pilots to join the Royal Air Force to fight in the Second World War has died, aged 99. Leo Hendrikx was one the final living Engelandvaarders - the ...

A Second World War Spitfire fighter plane has crashed in a field in Kent. The plane, owned by Fly A Spitfire, went down "in the vicinity of Hythe on 03/05/2025 (Saturday)", the company said in a ...