The Spitfire’s wing was not just about looks. Its shape reduced drag and improved performance. This video explains why the ...

The Supermarine Spitfire emerged from a flawed interwar fighter competition to become Britain’s most iconic aircraft. Its ...

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 ...

They were the young and the brave. In the high summer of 1940, some boys in blue uniforms, in a sky yet more blinding blue, took on a plague and defeated it. The plague was Nazism. Like Henry V’s men ...

As excavation of lost Spitfire aircraft in Burma has brought the famous warplane back into the British psyche, TM looks at the history of this iconic British aircraft. Information courtesy of Imperial ...

The Spitfire, an iconic British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in World War II, is taking to the skies once again, marking 75 years since the D-Day invasions. But this time, ...

To mark the 100 th anniversary of the UK establishing the Royal Air Force as the first independent service of its kind, our cutaway choice for this Farnborough air show preview issue features two of ...

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A campaign for a memorial to honour the women and children who built more than 2,000 Spitfires in secret to help win the Second World War has been launched. The little-known operation involved just a ...