A pensioner devoted five years to constructing a replica model of a Spitfire fighter plane, which now takes pride of ... Its cockpit, complete with a miniature pilot, has also been recreated in ...

Commonwealth pilots scrambled from British airfields, flying their Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft, hoping to thwart Hitler’s plan. Among nearly 3,000 aircrew in that first test of Allied ...

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with German soldiers ... remembers the moment he discovered the war in Europe was over. On 8 May 1945, the Spitfire pilot was in Germany, preparing his aircraft ...

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with ... remembers the moment he discovered the war in Europe was over. On 8 May 1945, the Spitfire pilot was in Germany, preparing his aircraft for a patrol ...

A Devon landlord has unveiled his own special tribute to wartime Britain - a full-size replica RAF Spitfire. Simon Powell of the Oxenham Arms on Dartmoor has constructed the WW2 fighter with two ...

The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot. "This is where my ...

A Second World War Spitfire fighter plane has crashed in a field ... a precautionary landing was made at a non-airfield site. The pilot and passenger are uninjured and at this stage we have ...

A Spitfire pilot who crash landed in a field saved the life of his passenger who was on a birthday trip, says a witness. The pilot and a passenger managed to walk out of the aircraft unhurt.

A Second World War Spitfire fighter plane has crashed in a field in Kent ... "We can confirm that a precautionary landing was made at a non-airfield site. The pilot and passenger are uninjured and at ...