The Spitfire itself was the brainchild of Reginald Mitchell, whose revolutionary elliptical wing design made it the most manoeuvrable fighter plane the world had yet known. But he was an ill man by ...

HAZAR, the derelict torpedo retriever, was dismantled by Stevens Towing before it was sunk as an artificial reef by the S.C.

The Spitfire itself was the brainchild of Reginald Mitchell, whose revolutionary elliptical wing design made it the most manoeuvrable fighter plane the world had yet known. But he was an ill man by ...

Powerful and dependable, the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine was fitted to many of the most significant warplanes of the Second World War—from the Spitfire and Hurricane to the Lancaster. The engine’s ...