Thanks to the dedicated efforts of BBMF engineers, the fighter aircraft are beginning ... continued role in commemorating ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

RAF chiefs have paid tribute to the last of The Few — by painting his name on a fighter plane that starred ... hero was the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He was shot down four times ...

The 21-year-old fighter pilot flew Hurricanes in 1940, when he and others defended Britain ... enemy aircraft during an 11-day period in May 1940, and provided fighter cover during the Battle ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Less than 3,000 Allied airmen took part in the air battle ...

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

was considered in the 1930s to be the cutting edge in military aviation – what we would today call a “next generation” fighter plane. On the first day of the Battle of Britain, on May 10th ...

LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has ... with German aircraft in August of 1940, Hemingway was twice forced to bail out of his Hurricane fighter, once landing in ...

Three of us were absolutely impossible and we went on fighters - and I was one of those three.“ During the Battle of Britain ... the tail section of the aircraft his parachute then deployed ...

Paddy Hemmingway, originally from Dublin, was among the men known as "The Few", coined by Winston Churchill to describe the Battle of Britain pilots ...

John 'Paddy' Hemingway joined the RAF at the age of 19 and became one of the airmen Winston Churchill described as 'The Few' ...