EXCLUSIVE: In the week we honour Battle of Britain Day, the peak of our 1940 air defence of the UK, we stepped into the boots of our flying heroes.

As the skies over Europe were dotted with searing dogfights and devastating aerial raids, US engineers waged their own battle against each other in a fierce competition to build the next great ...

When the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt flew through the skies in World War II, it was the moment that shifted air warfare. Its designer was Alexander Kartveli. The P-47 was commonly referred to as the ...