A Spitfire cockpit simulator designed and developed by engineers from Nottingham University has been officially unveiled at a Stoke-on-Trent gallery. A Spitfire RW388 on show at the Potteries Museum ...

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 ...

These Nottingham students are building a Spitfire cockpit flight simulator to 'inspire a new generation' "There has been a lot of application of what we have learned in lessons and workshops. Doing ...

As I clamber into the most realistic Spitfire simulator in the world – a construction built from umpteen original parts, of which several likely saw action, pilot Matt Jones says: ‘It’s very close to ...

A unique reproduction of a life-size Spitfire airplane will act as a striking symbol of the bravery and sacrifice of those who have served in conflicts past and present this Remembrance Sunday. Did ...

A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...

It was the plane that pilots 'put on' rather than flew; the beautiful beast that left even the Germans waxing lyrical. If you ask people today what typified British defiance the most in the Second ...

An historic Spitfire that downed a German aircraft during the Second World War before starring in a string of hit Hollywood films in the 1960s is set to go under the hammer this weekend for a record ...

A Spitfire was forced to make an emergency crash-landing in a field just days before VE Day. The historic aircraft - which had two people onboard - veered out of the sky before crashing down among ...