A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he ...

Jackie Moggridge's achievements were numerous - she was the first woman in South Africa to do a parachute jump, she flew more than 1,400 aircraft as a World War Two ferry pilot, she was one of only ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

Dubliner, John "Paddy" Hemingway, an RAF pilot and member of "The ... 1938 and went on be become one of the young pilots who fought in World War II's Battle of France. The United Kingdom's ...

John “Paddy″ Hemingway's death severs the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...

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 ...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War II has died aged 105, the United Kingdom’s (UK) Royal Air Force (RAF) said.