World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World ... to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain?

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 ...

there was concern that Supermarine would be unable to build enough Spitfires for both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm, and so the former took priority over the latter. When World War II ...

Spitfires were made at Supermarine's factory in Woolston until September 1940 A series of plaques describes the "trials and tribulations" people went through during a city's wartime effort to ...

An exterior view of St George's, the chapel at RAF Biggin Hill. A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside. (IWM RAF-T 6209) The development of the Spitfire aeroplane during ...