More Hurricanes flew in the Battle of Britain than any other British fighter, with 1,715 taking part and claiming 80% of destroyed enemy aircraft between July and October 1940. Before the World ...

The Spitfire is one of the most legendary fighter planes in history, but its success in the Battle of Britain was no accident. From its revolutionary elliptical wing design to its powerful Rolls-Royce ...

Outmanned in the air, the Royal Air Force received 100-octane fuel from the United States, which improved the speed and power of British fighter planes and allowed them to stave off the German threat.

After all, it was the most famous fighter of the Battle of Britain, not to mention arguably ... could say the same thing about ubiquity. The plane also earned bragging rights via the respect ...

303 Squadron was officially activated on August 2, 1940, twenty-three days after the Battle of Britain commenced. However, it would take some time before these Polish fighter pilots were allowed ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

The Luftwaffe heavily outnumbered the RAF. During the Battle of Britain, they had 2,550 fighter planes available, while the RAF only had 749. British pilots were also less experienced that the ...

This stereotype of the Battle of Britain might be comical if it wasn ... this elite group of aviators helped keep our overstretched fighter squadrons supplied with new and repaired aircraft to replace ...

On August 24th - these new Canadian fighters realized too late that some of them had been firing on British, not German planes. Two planes escaped, a third did not. As Battle of Britain continued ...

Photo: A RAF fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving the signal to engage the enemy during the Battle of Britain. (Getty Images) An overview of the Battle of Britain Michael Flanders narrates ...