The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on ...

All of 303 Squadron’s kills obtained during the Battle of Britain were attained in … yep, you guessed it: the Hawker Hurricane. What’s more, the only RAF Fighter Command flyboy to be awarded ...

The bird strike involved an RAF F35 fighter jet, similar to the one pictured An RAF fighter jet has been left "damaged" after it came into contact with a bird and had to return to its base in a ...

Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...

A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside. (IWM RAF-T 6209) The development ... its evolution from seaplane to world-famous fighter. The production of Spitfires during ...

Beatrice Shilling a graduate from The University of Manchester made a small adjustment to RAF fighter plane which helped them to ... Rolls-Royce Merlin engines powering their Spitfires and Hurricane.

No. 303 Squadron became the most successful Fighter Command unit in the Battle, shooting down 126 German machines in only 42 days. From a logistical standpoint, the Hurricane proved significantly ...

A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard ... From the Fighter Command control room in Uxbridge, Richard Holmes describes the RAF attacks on incoming German bombers.