The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

The Hawker Typhoon was originally designed to be armed with twelve .303-inch Browning machine guns, and it was set to be powered by a pair of next-generation 2,000-horsepower engines. The aircraft ...

THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...

The Sea Fury is one of the only two prop-driven fighters to manage to shoot down a MiG-15. August 2025 will mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, and accordingly, a number of ...

The carrier-based fighter was armed with six ... From 1937 to 1944, nearly 14,500 Hawker Hurricane fighters were produced. The Royal Air Force deployed 32 Hurricane squadrons during the war ...

In the early years of Second World War, fighter planes were in short supply ... railway boxcars but now the Allies) needed Hawker Hurricane airplanes and quickly. The daunting task fell to ...

Photo: Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, the renowned fighter ace, and fellow pilots study a caricature of Hitler painted on a Hawker Hurricane in October 1940. (IWM CH 1412) Mo Mowlam analyses the ...

A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside ... The events of the 15th September. From the Fighter Command control room in Uxbridge, Richard Holmes describes the RAF ...

A Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane stand guard outside ... describes its evolution from seaplane to world-famous fighter. The production of Spitfires during World War Two.