A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...

Led by associate professor Dr Mark Jabbal from Nottingham’s Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, the ‘Operation Spitfire’ project saw over 100 students and around 10 ...

A "massive fan" of the RAF saw his dream come true when he got the chance to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire. John Negus, ...

The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin Hill Airport for a passenger experience flight on June 25. Shortly after takeoff, the front cockpit ...

All of this meant that the Spitfire was a very versatile aircraft, and successive variants would assume a variety of roles. The 1942 HF Mark VII, for instance, ...

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

THIS is the shocking moment a Spitfire crash landed in a field while “practising for a VE Day event”. The 82-year-old World War II fighter aircraft made the emergency landing in a farme… ...

WAR veteran Dorothea Barron got into a Spitfire cockpit today at the age of 99 as part of the countdown to D-Day 80.The former Women’s Royal Naval S. Jump directly to the content.

Allegedly completed in 2022, the simulator comes as a metal Spitfire cockpit complete with acrylic windows. That’s the view from the outside, at least, one that doesn’t really concern anybody ...

Certainly, after WWII, RAF didn't need that many aircraft anymore. Thus, 136 Spitfire MK IXs were sold to South African Air Force in 1948, and TD134, the bird you see here, was among them.