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 ...

Arguably, England's greatest fighter plane was the legendary Spitfire. At the end of World War II, some of the Spitfires were dubbed surplus and buried while still in their shipping crates.

A fighter pilot shot down over France more than 65 years ago has been re-united with the Spitfire that almost became his tomb. Piotr Kuryllowicz was serving with the RAF in 1943 when he bailed out ...

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 ...

A watchmaker has created a timepiece from the remains of a Spitfire aircraft which went down over France during the Second World War. In a tribute to Britain's once golden industry of watchmaking ...

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 ...

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 ...