The pilot of a Spitfire involved in a fatal crash in Lincolnshire has been named. Ministry of Defence officials named the pilot as Squadron Leader Mark Long, who was due to take over the Battle of ...

During World War Two, the Spitfire Mk1 relied on precise convergence testing to ensure its guns hit exactly where the pilot expected. RAF armourers would fire the aircraft’s weapons at a calibrated ...

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"This is what I want to do. I want to fly." 101 Films & Trinity Creative have revealed an official trailer for The Shamrock Spitfire - a WWII thriller about the true story of a famed fighter pilot. It ...

One of the last surviving female pilots from World War II has died on the British Isle of Wight, aged 101. Mary Ellis served in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during the war, delivering Spitfire ...

LONDON – Ken Wilkinson, one of the last surviving Spitfire pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain, has died. He was 99. The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust says Wilkinson died on Monday. He was one ...

An eyewitness has revealed how a hero Spitfire pilot saved two lives with an emergency landing in crop field. Lee Williams, 55, was on holiday at a campsite with his wife Nicola when they saw two ...

The Royal Air Force pilot who died in a Spitfire crash near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire on Saturday has been named as squadron leader Mark Long. Police and emergency services rushed to the scene on ...

A vintage British Supermarine Spitfire arrives at RAF Lakenheath, England, May 7, 2018. (Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew/Air Force) LONDON—A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air ...

Ronald David Scott was born on October 20, 1917, to a Scottish father, Roy Douglas Scott (a Boer War veteran and a dragoon in World War I and one of the first referees in Argentine rugby), and an ...

Ken Wilkinson, one of the last survivors of "The Few" — the band of pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain — has died. He was 99. The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said Wilkinson died Monday. The ...