A creative factory worker has paid tribute to the heroes of World War Two, by building intricate replicas of two iconic RAF planes - ­ from bits of scrap. Rob Wass, 34, spent 1,500 hours creating a ...
In April 2018, I stood at the breezy cliff-top Battle of Britain memorial at Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone, and tried to ...
The model plane was a project that Ray Burden started in lockdown in 2020 A man from a Warwickshire village spent five years constructing a quarter scale model of a Spitfire fighter plane to honour ...
A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...
A Devon collector is rebuilding a World War II Spitfire fighter plane with parts from around the globe. Martin Phillips has spent about seven years and £1m gathering thousands of parts at his workshop ...
It was a case of ‘box away!’ when this aircraft was unveiled at a museum on Sunday. The life-size model of a Spitfire had been put together using 6,500 Eggs For Soldiers cartons and took six weeks to ...
Signature Aviation, which provided parts for the Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft during Second World War when it was a manufacturer, has agreed to a takeover by a consortium that includes Bill Gates' ...
Eighty years on, the Battle of Britain—the air campaign waged by the RAF against Germany’s Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England in the summer and fall of 1940—continues to loom large for Nick ...