As WW2 began, British Expeditionary Force deployed across the Channel. RAF sent four squadrons of their Hawker Hurricane fighters. Initially, they intercepted some German bombers on recon missions ...

So powerful in fact that by the 1960s, when sales were at their peak, Airfix was shifting more than 350,000 injection-moulded plastic scale model kits of the aircraft per annum. That’s four times as ...

Unlike the average Airfix kit, it took far more than the deft ... model Second World War fighter plane ever built. The model Hawker Typhoon has a wingspan of 19 metres (62ft), is 14metres (45ft ...

Thousands of aviation enthusiasts are expected to flock to Scone Airport today, to watch a restored Hawker Hurricane take part in an ear-shattering flight of rare World War II fighter-planes.