Air traffic controller Susie Laurence-Doig spent her career directing Spitfires around Britain’s skies, but never had the ...

The most qualified pilot to judge a piston-engine fighter was the test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, who deemed the single-seat ...

A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at ...

This fire-breathing 27-liter 1,800-horsepower Roll-Royce Merlin aero engine famously powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Lancaster and Mosquito WW2 aircraft. It has been mounted on a trailer for ...

"Well apart from being totally gorgeous as an aeroplane, it's a symbol." Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the first test flight of a new prototype plane that would go on to become Britain's most ...