The Spitfire’s Surprising Role in World War II: More Than Just a Fighter Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire.

The Silver Spitfire is set to become the first of its type to fly around the world. Pilot Steve Brooks says the Spitfire is the "most iconic" machine ever made.

Image captions: The Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054 in 1936 - Air Historical Branch-RAF There’s a powerful mythology connected to the Spitfire fighter plane. So powerful in fact that by the 1960s ...

A Spitfire which crashed near Hailsham, East Sussex, was buried for 30 years - now its Rolls-Royce engine is back on display to the public George Carden BBC News, Tangmere ...