On this day in aviation history, March 5, 1936, the legendary Supermarine Spitfire took to the skies for the first time. The ...

The Fairey Battle, a British-built single-engine light bomber aircraft, was conceived by the Fairey Aircraft Company and ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest hour.

An exterior view of St George's, the chapel at RAF Biggin Hill. A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside. (IWM RAF-T 6209) The development of the Spitfire aeroplane during ...

The Supermarine Spitfire Mark I was an elegant and agile ... part in many of the crucial battles of World War Two, giving the RAF a critical edge over the German Luftwaffe. The ground breaking ...

The RAF's iconic Supermarine Spitfires helped defeat Luftwaffe ... Trips to museums inspired his love of the Spitfire and building models of it, with plastic and glue eventually being superseded ...

One of the key additions to this latest model is a new Infinity Mode, which harks back to a special switch on the throttle of a Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane. With it, pilots could unlock an ...

An exterior view of St George's, the chapel at RAF Biggin Hill. A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside. (IWM RAF-T 6209) Features in: The importance of radar The ...