UK airshow season launched in style with the Shuttleworth Season Premiere at Old Warden, delivering an unforgettable day of ...

If you live in Cambridgeshire and are a fan of history, you have most likely spent a day at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) ...

The fleet currently includes a Beech A36 Bonanza, Mk XI Spitfire, P-51 Mustang and MK IIB Hurricane, and he has another Mk IX Spitfire being rebuilt ... “The Alison V1710 / V12 engine is a different ...

Yagen’s second purchase, a 1943 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX, today sits alone in the middle ... other aircraft because of a recent spate of engine trouble, but this one Yagen bought in flying ...

If everything is done correctly, the Spitfire is one of the easiest aircraft to start. The engine usually fires within two blades and runs like a clock. While the Merlin-engine versions run very ...

Rolls-Royce PV-12 engine powered the iconic Spitfire. The fighter earned its ... Later variants of the Mk IX and Mk XVI had two 75-gallon (284-liter) tanks beneath the cockpit.

It is the second oldest Mk. IX Spitfire flying and the only such aircraft flying with a Merlin 63 engine. Shipped to Casablanca in 1943 for service with the Middle East Air Force, it also flew on ...

The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the most innovative ... By the time the Merlin Mk II and Mk III engines were installed in Supermarine Spitfires, the agile fighter had an engine power rating ...

The Spitfire Mk I ... 253 Squadron markings after being converted into a Mk II in the past. The Fury was one of the fastest piston-engine aircraft ever built and served at a time when jets ...

The engine of a Spitfire that crashed in a field in East Sussex during World War Two is set to go on display in a museum. How it got there has been called a "fascinating" story. When Phil Wooler ...

There’s nothing like the sound of a Spitfire’s Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - and hearing it at takeoff is pure magic. I captured this iconic aircraft as it roared down the runway, with that ...