Chris Tong said the plaques tell a "terrific story" Chris Tong told the BBC his father Cyril, who was a designer of the spitfire at Supermarine, had come home "quite shaken" after one of the ...

From a logistical standpoint, the Hurricane proved significantly cheaper to build than the Supermarine Spitfire as well as being even simpler to overhaul, especially when it came to repairing ...

On January 7, 1942, the Supermarine Seafire, the navalized version of the Spitfire, made its first flight. Developed in order to provide a high-performance fighter capable of carrier operations ...

The Supermarine Spitfire Mark I was an elegant and agile fighting machine. The groundbreaking original design meant the plane could be upgraded with new engines and armaments. The Spitfire played ...

Chris Tong told the BBC his father Cyril, who was a designer of the spitfire at Supermarine, had come home "quite shaken" after one of the factory bombing raids. "He'd said that there were two ...

An interesting question to ponder is: Which was the better warbird flown by those “so few” in “Their Finest Hour”: the Supermarine Spitfire or the Hawker Hurricane? The Spitfire should be ...