A pensioner has finally achieved her lifelong dream of flying in a Spitfire plane – at the age of 91. Doreen Allen first fell in love with the “beautiful” aircraft as a child during World War Two ...

With guns empty and time running out, RAF Spitfire pilots faced a deadly decision—tip the V-1 flying bomb with their own wing ...

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The pilot killed in a Spitfire crash during a Battle of Britain memorial show had told how he set his heart on a career in the RAF as a seventeen-year-old boy - recalling: 'That appeals as a job!' ...

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 ...

VISITORS to an East Lancashire garden festival are to be propelled back in time by a spectacular fly-past from a Second World War Spitfire. The fighter, which was built in 1944 and saw service in the ...

Two British aviation enthusiasts will fly a newly restored Spitfire 27,000 miles around the world in the first trip of its kind. Pilots Steve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, ...

Summary: Recent months have seen several tragic military aircraft incidents. An F-35 Lightning II and an F-16 Fighting Falcon both crashed in New Mexico, while a vintage Supermarine Spitfire from the ...

Jack Hemmings joined the RAF in 1940 at 18. It has been 84 years since the grandfather-of-three, first took to the skies - Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph It’s almost impossible for younger generations ...