A British aviation enthusiast searching for scores of World War II-era Spitfire fighter planes he believes are buried in Myanmar said Tuesday he will continue his quest even though his main sponsor ...

LONDON – An airplane-obsessed farmer, a freelance archaeologist, and a team of excavators are heading from Britain to the Myanmar city of Yangon on Saturday to find a nearly forgotten stash of British ...

How did the two iconic fighters of the Second World War—the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109—compare? Was either plane demonstrably better? We examine the two based on ...

Britain’s Royal Air Force will ground a fleet of World War II-era aircraft following a deadly crash of one of its Spitfire fighters, the warplane famous for resisting the German Luftwaffe in the 1940 ...

"Don't change a thing" - this is what Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers declared after taking the Supermarine Spitfire prototype, K5054, from Eastleigh Aerodrome to the skies for the first time on 5 March ...

Even nowadays, it is impossible for anyone who knows a bit of military aviation history to not recognize the famous Supermarine Spitfire from WWII, the aircraft that fought in the Battle of Britain, ...

YANGON, Myanmar — A search team led by a British aviation enthusiast arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to begin a dig they hope will unearth dozens of rare British Spitfire fighter planes said to have been ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “No aircraft is as hallowed as the Spitfire,” Holland concludes. For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting ...

A rare Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIX with post WWII origins and a global restoration history is now listed for sale by Boschung ...