A "massive fan" of the RAF saw his dream come true when he got the chance to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire. John Negus, ...

Though plans for a Spitfire fitted with an arrester hook and folding wings were made in 1939, and the Admiralty expressed interest in procuring 50 aircraft in February 1940, First Lord of the ...

He shot down several enemy aircraft - many of them during the Battle of Britain - and was decorated for his efforts. The Spitfire was salvaged from the bottom of a loch in Ayrshire in 1982 He was ...

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled at the University of Southampton to mark the Spitfire’s historic links with the city. The single-seat fighter aircraft was used by the Royal Air Force ...