The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on ...

The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...

Many a history buff is familiar with Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots ... major defeat in World War II: “Never in the ...

No. 303 Squadron became the most successful Fighter Command unit in the Battle, shooting down 126 German machines in only 42 days. From a logistical standpoint, the Hurricane proved significantly ...

For years one of the engines of an RAF Mosquito reconnaissance spy plane has lain on the Welsh hillside where it crashed - ...

The bird strike involved an RAF F35 fighter jet, similar to the one pictured ... The mission involves RAF pilots from 617 Squadron patrolling the Arctic region. Lightning jets land on HMS Prince ...

Two WWII films about Squadron 303 hit cinema screens ... with specific stories generally keeping to facts. The fighter ace Witold Urbanowicz, who had achieved success in other RAF squadrons before 303 ...