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

Meet the biggest, fastest and most formidable vessels and vehicles in the world

The worst loss of life among animals during the Second World War occurred before a single bomb had dropped on Great Britain. Official notices of advice to the public on how to prepare for air raids we

We finish this issue enjoying an east of England airshow in the mid-Eighties, where there’s just as much action off the ground as there is on it