The Supermarine Spitfire emerged from a flawed interwar fighter competition to become Britain’s most iconic aircraft. Its ...

Even among other Spitfires, serial number RM747 has a combat history and a prolific service career. But there's a big twist ...

A historian who pioneered in recovering Titanic relics, a medical director who helped establish the first Paediatric ICU, and nursery founders are among those recognised in the King’s New Year's ...

An elderly British passenger was wheeled onto an easyJet flight from Málaga, Spain, to Gatwick when she was already dead, horrified holidaymakers have claimed. The 89-year-old was helped on board the ...

Roland “Bud” Wolfe’s yen to fly hot airplanes for the British against Nazi Germany before the U.S. declared war landed him in an Irish jail — twice — making him the only American held in what was one ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

A small aircraft has crashed into a reservoir, police said. Essex Police was called shortly after 14:00 GMT on Sunday to reports of the aircraft entering the water at Hanningfield Reservoir, near ...

We think of crystals as the gold standard of frequency generation. However, if you want real precision, you need something either better than a crystal or something that will correct for tiny errors — ...