Andrew Frankel may have enjoyed some pretty special driving experiences, but for him the opportunity to fly an authentic ...

A pensioner has finally achieved her lifelong dream of flying in a Spitfire plane – at the age of 91. Doreen Allen first fell in love with the “beautiful” aircraft as a child during World War Two ...

The Spitfire itself was the brainchild of Reginald Mitchell, whose revolutionary elliptical wing design made it the most ...

A 102-year-old former RAF man who took to the sky in a Spitfire described the experience being back behind the controls as “absolutely delightful”. Jack Hemmings, a former RAF squadron leader, is ...

The pilot killed in a Spitfire crash during a Battle of Britain memorial show had told how he set his heart on a career in the RAF as a seventeen-year-old boy - recalling: 'That appeals as a job!' ...

Jack Hemmings joined the RAF in 1940 at 18. It has been 84 years since the grandfather-of-three, first took to the skies - Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph It’s almost impossible for younger generations ...

A former bank executive has been killed as he flew his beloved replica Spitfire. Trevor Bailey, 68, crashed into a field in Oxfordshire on Tuesday. The former RBS boss was a member of the Enstone ...

The Spitfire, an iconic British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in World War II, is taking to the skies once again, marking 75 years since the D-Day invasions. But this time, ...

One of the last Spitfire aces of World War Two has died aged 99. Sqn Ldr Allan Scott took a flight in one of the iconic planes to mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018, and had hoped to do so again to ...

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