On this day in aviation history, March 5, 1936, the legendary Supermarine Spitfire took to the skies for the first time. The ...

The Spitfire would become the answer ... leaving behind the open-cockpit biplane designs that had dominated the first few decades of aviation. Supermarine, with new technologies at the ready ...

His colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the development of the Spitfire through its multitude of variants. When the first Mk1 Spitfires entered RAF service with No 19 ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave the British a decisive advantage fighting the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.