Few machines have as much shared history as the Spitfire and Messerschmitt fighter aeroplanes. Now, more than 80 years after ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “No aircraft is as hallowed as the Spitfire,” Holland concludes. For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting ...

Paul Monteagle, a technology teacher at Millthorpe School in York shows an original spade grip control column from a Second World War Spitfire fighter to pupils who have contributed to a special ...

The first replica from the new line only cost about a quarter of what it would take to buy an original example today.

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis. Three years earlier, a British ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the UK establishing the Royal Air Force as the first independent service of its kind, our cutaway choice for this Farnborough air show preview issue features two of ...

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