It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

in response to the RAF’s urgent need for a superior fighter. Many experts consider it the best World War II fighter plane. -Conceived in just five years, the Mustang’s prototype, the NA-73X ...

A WW2 Baltimore attack bomber aircraft wreck belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force was discovered off the coast of ...

The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...

Managers at a country estate are preparing to host a special commemorative service to honour pilots who flew on a major World War Two mission. The ceremony at Markshall Estate near Braintree in Essex ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

The groundbreaking original design meant the plane could be upgraded with new engines and armaments. The Spitfire played its part in many of the crucial battles of World War Two, giving the RAF a ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...