The Duke of Cambridge was examining a newly restored Spitfire when he was asked if he wanted to take a seat in the cockpit of the historic aircraft. Despite joking that his "slippery shoes" were not ...

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 ...

Students in Nottingham have been building a cockpit for a Spitfire flight simulator over the last nine months to “inspire a new generation” to take an interest in the historic aircraft. Aerospace ...

An extraordinary unique opportunity for history lovers to get up and personal with an amazing Spitfire is taking place at Imperial War Museum Duxford. Lovingly restored from the Second World War, ...

Click to open image viewer. Supermarine Spitfire F. Mk. VIIc single seat, low wing monoplane high altitude fighter; enclosed cockpit; aluminum monocoque stressed skin elliptical wing with wingtip ...

Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most notorious WWII warbirds, and some of them are still flyworthy. However, not all of them are available for sale. This one is, and you might want it. Some ...

How did the two iconic fighters of the Second World War—the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109—compare? Was either plane demonstrably better? We examine the two based on ...

WAR veteran Dorothea Barron got into a Spitfire cockpit today at the age of 99 as part of the countdown to D-Day 80. The former Women’s Royal Naval Service signaller was delighted to view the fighter ...

The Grace Spitfire parked by the runway is nudging 80 years old but, should an air raid siren suddenly wail, the elegant old lady looks every bit as ready to soar into the skies as she was in wartime.

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British fighter aircraft used by the RAF and many other Allied countries during World War Two. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was ...

Parts of an RAF Spitfire which have lain buried since World War Two after the fighter crashed into a field in Co Monaghan have been unearthed. Archaeologists recovered remnants of the wreckage at the ...