A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...
They were the young and the brave. In the high summer of 1940, some boys in blue uniforms, in a sky yet more blinding blue, took on a plague and defeated it. The plague was Nazism. Like Henry V’s men ...
Jack Hemmings, a 102-year-old former RAF Squadron Leader, has become the oldest man to fly a Spitfire plane. On Monday 5 February, Jack seized on a break in the blustery weather and took off from ...
The wheels are real – cast-offs from an original Spitfire. So is the fully functional Perspex canopy. The old black dials in the cockpit are genuine too, straight out of brown boxes stamped Air ...
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