A Spitfire pilot has been posthumously added to the ranks of The Few in a rare occasion nearly 80 years after the Battle of Britain. Sergeant James Eric William Ballard has now been added to the famed ...
Britain's Royal Air Force has grounded a fleet of World War II Spitfire planes following the death of a pilot in a weekend crash, officials said Monday. The announcement raises questions about the ...
A newly restored Spitfire has landed back in the UK after two British pilots flew the iconic World War Two fighter plane around the world. Steve Brooks, 58, and Matt Jones, 45, took four months to ...
In life, Paul Figes never achieved his dream of flying in a Spitfire. The Royal Air Force technician spent 31 years maintaining Tornado jets but died from coronavirus in 2021. But a documentary is to ...
Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War Two has gone on display after being restored. Spitfire AA810 was downed while on a mission to photograph the German battleship ...
It was the plane that pilots 'put on' rather than flew; the beautiful beast that left even the Germans waxing lyrical. If you ask people today what typified British defiance the most in the Second ...
The pilots of a restored Second World War Spitfire have landed safely back in the UK after a 27,000 mile round-the-world journey. The two pilots landed back in Britain after flying around the world in ...
A horrified eyewitness has recalled the terrifying moment a Spitfire crashed into a farmer's field just hours before VE Day celebrations. A historic Spitfire was seen circling "for a couple of minutes ...
THE MANY owed their lives to it and now the entire world has had a chance to pay homage to the most iconic plane ever built. A Spitfire arrives back in Britain on Thursday after an epic four-month ...