Discover the final operational flight of the RAF Supermarine Spitfire on April 1, 1954, marking the end of an era for one of ...

A man thought to have been the last surviving member of the RAF's elite World War Two Pathfinder squadrons has died at the age of 102. Jack Dark was born in Horsham, West Sussex, in 1923 and worked ...

Built by the now defunct Bolton Paul Aircraft Ltd. (headquartered in Wolverhampton, England) and designed by “the quaint genius” John Dudley North, the Defiant made its maiden flight on August 11, ...

Built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (which eventually became one of the founding components of BAE Systems), the Blenheim made its maiden flight on April 12, 1935, under the designation of Type 142 ...

Dubliner, John "Paddy" Hemingway, an RAF pilot and member of "The Few", is remembered as a hero. Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway was born in Dublin in 1919. He enlisted in the British Royal ...

A derelict World War Two hospital at a former military site could be knocked down under plans for a new housing development.

MIAMI, Okla. -- Only red roses laid tenderly on the ground broke up the green landscape around the sturdy tombstones. Only the wail of a bagpipe contradicted the reverent Monday morning silence. Then ...

A St. Charles boy who learned to fly in Winona was the first American pilot to see combat action in World War II. Flight Lieutenant Art Donahue, who died in 1942 flying a Spitfire for the United ...

NASM copy 39088019745215 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. siris_sil_1156601 ...

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