The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

MODEL plane fans hoping to build a magazine’s Spitfire replica face paying out £1,200 over two years. Hachette Partwork tempt readers with a £1.99 first edition and £5.99 for the second.

A Spitfire plane carrying a pilot and one passenger has crash-landed on a field in Kent. The World War Two plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a field near Lower Wall Road in West ...

Like many other small boys Alan James’s childhood passion was to build aircraft models, inspired in his case by the ones he watched take off and land at the RAF base near his home in Reading.

Alan James, 63, from Reading, Berkshire, always wanted to fly a Spitfire, but was disappointed to learn a two-day course would cost £5,000 and he would only get 40 minutes’ flying time. Four years ago ...

Airfix model fan supersizes his boyhood hobby to buy enormous replica Spitfire for his garden By TOM MIDLANE Published: 09:01 EDT, 16 February 2025 | Updated: 09:35 EDT, 16 February 2025 ...

Episode nine: Teenage Pilots. How does it feel to fly the plane that won the war? Two Spitfire pilots, one from the Battle of Britain, one from today’s RAF, compare their experiences, from ...

Ray Burden, a dedicated local craftsman, has spent the last four years building a 1/4 scale model of the iconic Spitfire fighter plane entirely from scratch. Using original plans, Ray constructed ...

The latest such nod to the plane that saved Britain back in the day comes from Switzerland and is called simply that: Spitfire. Built by VTR Customs with the help of Dutch watchmaker TW Steel, the ...

A DEVOTED grandad spent over 200 hours building a Spitfire replica for his plane-mad grandson. Retired Allan Paul, from Thurso, Caithness, crafted a third size wooden scale model of the iconic Worl… ...

Carolyn Grace, 58, flies the iconic aircraft to the delight of war veterans and history buffs to shows all over the country from her base in Rendlesham, Suffolk.

When German bombs hit the Spitfire factory building the plane production ground to a sudden halt. There would be no new Spitfires to replace those shot from the skies.