On March 2, 1943, 26 Royal Australian Air Force Spitfires intercepted 21 Japanese Zeros attacking Darwin. It was the first of ...

The Battle of Britain raged on in September 1940. The sky erupts in chaos. Spitfires and Messerschmitts twist and turn in a ...

Matt Kortas fell in love with the Supermarine Spitfire while flying the legendary British plane in dogfights against German aces. He was 15, at the controls of a computer game in his home near Detroit ...

Airplanes have long played an important role in wars, conducting reconnaissance and bombing missions — as well as fighting each other in the skies. Close-quarters combat between aircraft is known as ...

England to Dunkirk — so even after the Spitfire’s dogfights, the distance it traveled in the film without a propeller was well within the range of possibility. See Dunkirk's latest POWER MOVE.

Not many will recall gazing upwards into the vast skies of southern Hampshire, watching the desperate, swirling dogfights that defined the summer ...