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 ...

The ride from south London to Biggin Hill in Kent took less than half an hour, and it was a fine way to spend an autumn ...

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. To complete ...

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 ...

LONDON – A rare two-seat version of the Spitfire fighter, the plane that earned a nation's gratitude in the Battle of Britain, may fetch a record price in an auction this month. This Spitfire is ...

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One of Germany’s essential steps for European domination in World War II was to control the British isles, which it tried to do in the summer of 1940 using air warfare almost exclusively. However, ...

An ill-fated Spitfire and the crater formed when it crashed are to be recreated as 3D models to help archaeologists study what happened. Parts of the plane were excavated from Holme Fen in ...

It used to be that if you wanted to make a nice scale model of an airplane, you’d be building the frame out of thin balsa ribs and covering it all up with tissue paper. Which incidentally was more or ...

A DRIVING instructor who decided the cost of a Spitfire flight experience was too expensive has fulfilled his dream by building a working replica of the real thing. Alan James spent three years ...

The Spitfire crashed in a field in Cambridgeshire in November 1940 An ill-fated Spitfire and the crater formed when it crashed are to be recreated as 3D models to help archaeologists study what ...