The last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died aged 105. Born ...

John 'Paddy' Hemingway joined the RAF at the age of 19 and became one of the airmen Winston Churchill described as 'The Few' ...

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies ...

This is the true story of captured American pilot Bob Hoover. In one of World War II's most incredible stories, this pilot would actually escape his POW camp and would fly back to friendly lines by ...

Deployed Eurofighter Typhoons from the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) have for the first time undergone air-to-air refuelling behind a German-operated ... day to qualify RAF pilots in refuelling from ...

AT THE end of 1941, the German Luftwaffe were on the back foot ... The suborbital craft, with just one pilot, would be powered up along a two-mile sled helping it to reach speeds of 1,200mph ...

IN THE early hours of a Sunday 80 years ago, the Luftwaffe came calling ... but the German planes lay in wait for them as they returned. French pilot Capitaine Paul Notelle was about to land ...

The German fighter pilot who intercepted it could have easily ... this real-life encounter between B-17 pilot Charlie Brown and Luftwaffe ace Franz Stigler is filled with interviews, archival ...

In aircraft powered by the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, including the Supermarine Spitfire, pilots could obtain ... Rolls-Royce's German owners at BMW are clearly taking a magnanimous ...

German aircraft production was slowed but not halted; production rapidly returned to normal. The main result of Big Week was Germany's loss of substantial numbers of Luftwaffe fighters and pilots.

While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot ... the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe—German for “Sparrow”—was the world’s first operational jet fighter ...