From rapidly evolving roles to new technologies, historian and airpower expert John Curatola discusses how fighter planes shaped the Second World War

One of the best Soviet fighter planes of the Second World War, this aircraft also saved its design bureau

Fulfilling his dream, our writer takes the controls of a Spitfire, Britain’s most iconic aircraft, which first took to the skies nearly 90 years ago

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Keith Dewhurst decided he wanted an Armstrong Siddeley in the late ’80s, while working for the BBC as an engineer: “I bought a 346 in 1988, which I still own – I’ve done 80,000 miles in it. There’s al

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