To mark the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the legendary fighter, a Spitfire took to the skies with various ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 613462410 Hulton Deutsch Collection Corbis Getty Images 2 The Supermarine Spitfire, a British fighter that fought in ...

How did the two iconic fighters of the Second World War—the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109—compare? Was either plane demonstrably better? We examine the two based on ...

The following is excerpted from Tim Harford’s new book Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. In 1931, the British Air Ministry sent out a demanding new specification for a fighter aircraft.

An original Spitfire plane took off from Britain on Monday on an unprecedented attempt to fly the iconic World War II fighter around the globe. The gleaming silver aircraft set off from Goodwood ...

It’s not always the best aircraft that wins in an air-to-air engagement. Most of the times it is the training the pilot has received and his/her skills, experience to make the difference: that’s why a ...

The plane is a hero of World War II − but what is it about the design that singles it out? Jonathan Glancey salutes an icon. At first, it’s the sound – that sound – that catches the attention. As eyes ...

The spitfire was shot down in 1942 and later pulled from a peat bog in Norway The fuselage of a Spitfire shot down during World War Two has gone on display at a museum to mark the efforts of Kent ...

In autumn 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, Luftwaffe commander-in-chief Hermann Göring gazed across the Channel towards Dover’s white cliffs and asked German fighter ace Adolf Galland what he’d ...

View post: Milwaukee’s ‘Very Bright’ Pen Flashlight Is a Huge Hit Among Mechanics, and It’s on Sale for $20 at Amazon 18 -1976 Triumph Spitfire in Colorado wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 70 ...