This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

Also, in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 1, 1939, a mixture of Heinkel He 111’s, Junkers Ju 87B’s, and Dornier Do 17E aircraft from Lufflotte 4 (Air Fleet 4) took to the skies to attack Polish ...

A new campaign has been launched for a Norfolk memorial to the Royal Navy sailors of HMS Umpire, a submarine sunk off the coast in one of the ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...

Hemmingway was recorded as shooting down a Heinkel bomber and a Dornier bomber on consecutive days but had to make a forced landing on the second occasion after being hit by German anti-aircraft ...

Depending on your perspective, German aviator and Patagonia explorer Gunther Pluschow was either phenomenally lucky, or phenomenally unlucky.

Battle of Britain pilot Paddy Hemingway, who served from the first day of the Second World War to the very last and was shot ...