The RAF’s spirit of determination was also embodied in Douglas Bader, who had lost both legs in a pre-war flying accident but returned to action and shot down 23 aircraft, flying both Spitfires ...

Fighter Command ... commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War. It earned great fame ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 and North American P-51 Mustang are two of the most infamous fighters of the Second World War, striking ...

Vladimir Putin has long waged a war of espionage, sabotage and assassinations across Europe. The Typhoon is one of the main models of rapid response fighter jets used by the RAF (Picture ...

From the Fighter Command control room in Uxbridge, Richard Holmes describes the RAF attacks on incoming German bombers. The development of the Spitfire aeroplane during World War Two. As a ...

RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace over the Baltic Sea. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said two RAF Typhoons were scrambled from Malbork Air Base ...

RAF fighter jets have urgently been being deployed to help patrol Polish airspace on Nato's eastern flank amid growing tensions with Russia over its war in Ukraine and in a bid to counter ...

Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force ... phoney war', the invasion of Poland and the early bombing raids on enemy shipping, through to the attacks on France. Aircraft ...