This Blender animation recreates the terrifying moment a Spitfire Mk I ditches into the freezing waters of the Solent. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m looking at a Spitfire. At least, I’m looking at what I have been told is a Spitfire. At the moment it is a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Britain’s Directorate of Technical Development considered Poland’s PZL P.24 monoplane to replace the Hawker Fury before deciding to stay with the indigenous Spitfire.

"Supermarine Spitfire Merlin engine: Royal Air Force squadrons" [4] p. inserted ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting chance. Early in the war, the Polish plane flew in combat with the ...

Collection illustrates the many uses of the versatile jet by all the allies during conflict STRIKING photos of the Spitfires that helped Britain win World War Two have been brought into the ...

You don't have to be an aviation expert to spot that immortal shape a mile away — or recognise an engine sound that can still reduce grown men to tears. But even lifelong Spitfire enthusiasts have ...