A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...

AN AEROPLANE fanatic was stunned to find part of a Spitfire being used as a window in a customer's shed. Electrician Harry Baines was amazed when he discovered the plexiglass canopy section from the ...

Jack Hemmings, a 102-year-old former RAF Squadron Leader, has become the oldest man to fly a Spitfire plane. On Monday 5 February, Jack seized on a break in the blustery weather and took off from ...

A heritage Spitfire was forced to do an emergency landing after its engine stopped mid-flight, investigators have found. The World War Two aircraft made the emergency landing in a field in West Hythe, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad - Spitfire Mk.XIVe with Teardrop Canopy The Spitfire Mk. XIV was originally built with a “high back” rear fuselage ...

In autumn 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, Luftwaffe commander-in-chief Hermann Göring gazed across the Channel towards Dover’s white cliffs and asked German fighter ace Adolf Galland what he’d ...

Is there anything else to be written about the Battle of Britain, which took place 70 years ago in the skies above southern England? Just a lifetime ago, Britain’s fate was laid upon the shoulders of ...

Eighty years ago, a small single-seat fighter was largely responsible for defeating Germany’s attempts to invade Britain. But it wasn’t the Spitfire. On 7 September 1940, southern England suffered ...