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 ...

You grab the open cockpit canopy with your right hand as you face ... that I had the chance to get up close and personal with Spitfire LA198 that has been frozen in mid-flight for all those ...

The Spitfire was fast, sleek and very agile ... and had managed to get his canopy open and jump out of his stricken plane, but blacked out before he could open his parachute.

In effect on April 14, 1979, a young air cadet with an interest in wartime plane crashes struck gold when, in the countryside near his home, he came across a piece of the canopy of a Spitfire from ...