The Spitfire is tops for glamour and romance but it was the Hurricane that was the real No1 fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. In 1940 anyone who flew wanted to be a Spitfire pilot - it was ...

Battle of Britain Hurricane fighter plane soars back into the skies after spending 50 years in bog where it sank when shot down by Nazi pilot in 1940.

The Hawker Hurricane was manufactured by Hawker Aircraft Ltd, which is now part of BAE Systems plc – who currently happens to be the lead contractor on Britain’s 6th-generation stealth fighter ...

His name has been added to the body of Hurricane LF363 which is based at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) at RAF Coningsby. The 21-year-old fighter pilot flew Hurricanes in 1940, when ...

The Hurricane had as much in common with aircraft built 20 years earlier than it did with the Spitfire ... The Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading and occupying Great Britain, ...

While often overshadowed by the glory of the Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was the RAF's fighter workhorse during the Battle of Britain.Evolved from the Hawker Fury, an interwar biplane, the ...

For the RAF aircraft which actually won the Battle of Britain was an older, larger, slower but still deadly fighter, the Hawker Hurricane. Without the Hurricane, the RAF would have probably lost ...

AGED 103, Battle of Britain hero John Hemingway is the last of The Few. And today The Sun can reveal how the Hawker Hurricane fighter that Irishman John, known as Paddy, was shot down in 82 years a… ...

Spitfire P7350 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flying in formation with Hawker Hurricane PZ865. Both of these aircraft were used in the production.

John 'Paddy' Hemingway, who died in March at the age of 105, has been honoured with a Hurricane named after him The last Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, who died at the age of 105 ...