As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots ... in “Their Finest Hour”: the Supermarine Spitfire or the Hawker Hurricane?

Royal Air Force (RAF) Squadron Leader Mark Long died Saturday when his Spitfire fighter crashed during a reenactment of the Battle of Britain Coningsby base in Lincolnshire. Prime Minister Rishi ...

Ruth Dicksee celebrated her 103rd birthday earlier this month at the care home she lives in in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World ... In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to destroy the Royal Air Force. At the start of the battle the RAF only had 640 fighters ...

The Shamrock Spitfire tells the story of 21-year-old Brendan “Paddy” Finucane, the youngest Wing Commander in the history of the Royal Air Force. The film was shot in Worcestershire by ...

Jack Hemmings died after becoming the oldest British pilot to fly a Spitfire in 2024 Geoff Bridgman ... it uses in RAF training missions, including air-to-air combat. The RAF Coningsby Typhoon ...

A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand ... The airport was formerly the Royal Air Force station RAF Biggin Hill, and a small enclave on the airport still retains that designation.

The Spitfire should be the obvious answer to that question, right? After all, it was the most famous fighter of the Battle of Britain, not to mention arguably Great Britain’s most famous fighter ...

There’s the 4D theatre with a moving seat and smoke effects, the flight simulator that jets you over a virtual Lake District and the Spitfire Experience, where you get to sit in the cockpit of ...