The Spitfire itself was the brainchild of Reginald Mitchell, whose revolutionary elliptical wing design made it the most ...

As a light fighter-bomber armed with 250- or 500-lb bombs, the Whirlwind was effective, proving itself in sweeps of the ...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine produced a sound that became inseparable from Britain’s most iconic aircraft. From the Lancaster to the Spitfire and Hurricane, its roar carried weight, urgency, and ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

Steve Markham spent more than 11,500 hours building an 80 percent scale replica of a Photo Reconnaissance Spitfire that flew ...