The story of the mostly 554 Anglo-Argentine pilots that joined the Royal Air Force in World War II, of which 122 died in combat, will be published in a book to be launched next August titled ...

Those few are gone now with the passing of Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway DFC: the last surviving RAF pilot from the Battle of Britain. Hemingway was born in Dublin, Ireland. Following the ...

RAF pilots such as Brian Latham, who had been sent to Texas, to learn to fly fighter planes, were among hundreds who "volunteered" for glider service. "If we didn't volunteer, we were told we'd ...

The pilot was killed when the Spitfire he was flying crashed in a field near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. In a social media post, the BBMF said it would be flying all its aircraft again during ...

she flew more than 1,400 aircraft as a World War Two ferry pilot, she was one of only five women to gain their RAF wings after the war, and she became Britain's first woman commercial airline ...

while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the Luftwaffe pilots. The average age of an RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain was just 20 years old. As the fighting was ...