The Supermarine Spitfire became a symbol of British resistance during WW2, but its reputation was built on far more than elegant curves. From its powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engine to its distinctive ...

PRINCE WILLIAM echoed a child being moved on from his favourite toy earlier today when he asked for an extra 10 minutes in the cockpit of a Spitfire. The Duke of Cambridge was examining a newly ...

A Spitfire cockpit simulator designed and developed by engineers from Nottingham University has been officially unveiled at a Stoke-on-Trent gallery. A Spitfire RW388 on show at the Potteries Museum ...

Parts of an RAF Spitfire which have lain buried since World War Two after the fighter crashed into a field in Co Monaghan have been unearthed. Archaeologists recovered remnants of the wreckage at the ...

An extraordinary unique opportunity for history lovers to get up and personal with an amazing Spitfire is taking place at Imperial War Museum Duxford. Lovingly restored from the Second World War, ...

Click to open image viewer. Supermarine Spitfire F. Mk. VIIc single seat, low wing monoplane high altitude fighter; enclosed cockpit; aluminum monocoque stressed skin elliptical wing with wingtip ...

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British fighter aircraft used by the RAF and many other Allied countries during World War Two. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was ...

In autumn 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, Luftwaffe commander-in-chief Hermann Göring gazed across the Channel towards Dover’s white cliffs and asked German fighter ace Adolf Galland what he’d ...