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IIllustrating the strength and adaptability of its basic design, the Supermarine Spitfire saw constant development throughout the Second World War,...

The Mk XII was the first production version of the Spitfire to use the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine. The Griffon was a devlopment of the 'R' sprint e...

Possessing grace, beautifully clean lines and lots of power, several Spitfires would survive the war to become highly distinctive aircraft on the c...

Airfix - 1:600 Bismarck (Vintage Classics) The most powerful battleship in the world in 1941 when she sailed to raid Allied shipping in the North A...

Airfix - 1:600 HMS Ark Royal (Vintage Classics) Launched at the Birkenhead shipyard of Cammel Laird on the 13th April 1937, H.M.S. Ark Royal was i...

Airfix - 1:600 HMS Victorious (Vintage Classics) HMS Victorious joined the Home Fleet on commissioning in May 1941 and just nine days later her pi...

RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, NI. On the n...

In the months which preceded the start of the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy were arguably the best equipped force of their kind i...

Due to shortage of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, some 300 Lancasters were built with Bristol Hercules radial engines, becoming the BII Variant. Some ...

The Dambusters raid, as it has since become known, was one the most famous operations of the war. Led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, the 19 speciall...

As the third of Britain's four engined heavy bombers to enter RAF service during WWII, the Avro Lancaster proved to be an exceptional aircraft, ...

The agile and reliable BAe Hawk T.1 has been providing the Royal Air Force with an effective advanced jet pilot training platform for over 40 years...

This version of the Sea Harrier is best known for its successful campaign in the war of 1982 in the South Atlantic, where it suffered no air-to-air...

About the Aircraft: Building on the incredible success of the RAFs British Aerospace Hawk trainer, the 100 series was a significant development of ...

Sharing the same RAF airfield as the Typhoons which provide Britains Southern sector QRA cover, the historic aircraft of the Battle of Britain ...

The handsome Beagle B.206 Basset was a twin-engined light executive transport and military communications aircraft built by the Beagle Aircraft ...

Representing two iconic British aircraft designs of the 20th century, the Supermarine Spitfire and BAe Hawk may have been developed during diff...

The mighty Blackburn Buccaneer was one of the most capable low-level strike aircraft of the Cold War period, originally entering Royal Navy service...

A TABLETOP GAME OF WORLD WAR II FIGHTER COMBAT: A Tactical Level Air Combat Tabletop Game for Two or More Players. Written by Andy Chambers, 'Bloo...

As a much-valued and one of the most well-known fighting aircraft designs of the Second World War, the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress will look as ey...

Airfix - 1:72 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I The Boulton-Paul Defiant was the only 'turret fighter' to enter service with the RAF. The Defiant used the...

The definitive variant of the Beaufighter and certainly the one most heavily produced, the TF.X was a two seat torpedo strike fighter, known collo...

The second in a successful trio of twin engined aircraft designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company during the 1930s, the Beaufort is significant ...

The Bristol Blenheim bomber was ordered "off the drawing board", and first deliveries to No 114 Sqn began in 1937. By the time of the Munich crisi...

The Bristol Blenheim was originally conceived as a privately funded high-speed civilian aircraft, intended to wrestle the record for the fastest c...

The Bristol Blenheim light bomber was one of the most important aircraft available to the RAF at the start of WWII and more Squadrons than any othe...

Ordered straight from the drawing board in 1935 the Bristol Type 142, later called the Blenheim was, for its time, a very advanced aircraft but by ...

Airfix - 1:72 Bristol Bulldog The handsome Bristol Bulldog was without doubt one of the most important RAF aircraft of the inter-war period. Intr...

Part of the 70th D-Day Anniversary sets by Airifx. The Willys Jeep, officially designated Truck, 1/2 ton, 4x4, is the best known of all the America...

Mould Tools made in 1961, pack Illustration by Ron Jobson, 1975. Enjoy the nostalgia with Airfix Vintage Classics. The Churchill was the standard ...

The mighty clash of armour which followed the successful Allied landings on the D-Day beaches of Normandy held the potential to determine the o...

An aircraft which has often been described as 'Australia's panic fighter', the decision to build the indigenous Commonwealth Aircraft Corporati...

With the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF being needed for home defence duties, the arrival of large numbers of American Curtiss Tomahawk fighte...

The P-40 served the United States Army Air Force throughout the Second World War, fighting in Europe, across Asia and in the deserts of North Afric...

Airfix: 1:72 Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.IIB With the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF being needed for home defence duties, the arrival of large number...

Scheme 1: De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth Royal Naval Air Station Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland, 1962Scheme 2: De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth No,12 ...

Building on the success of de Havillands earlier twin engined Dove small passe aircraft, the company's attempt to produce a slightly larger airlin...

Without question, the de Havilland Mosquito qualifies as one of the finest fighting aeroplanes of the Second World War and one which could claim t...

Description The Mosquito earned the reputation of being one of the most outstanding aircraft of World War II.  Constant success in its variou...

Scheme 1: XK624 CFS Little Rissington September 1972 Scheme 2: Vampire J-28C Swedish Historic Flight  First entering RAF service in 1952, the De ...

One of the most rugged aircraft ever built, the DHC Beaver was designed to operate in the vast and often inhospitable expanses of the Canadian nor...

The A-4 Skyhawk is a carrier-capable ground-attack aircraft designed for the US Navy and Marine Corps. Skyhawks were the Navy's primary light bomb...

The F2 introduced in 1962 was much modified in 1968 producing the F2A with square cut fin, kinked leading edges and enlarged ventral tank which g...

The F4F Wildcat was the US Navy's primary carrier borne fighter aircraft at the start of the Second World War. Characterised by its stubby appeara...

As the US Navy fought back in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, the diminutive F4F-4 Wildcat was forced into combat against the Mitsubis...

The development of the Shooting Star leant heavily on early jet technology supplied by the British, as the Americans were lagging behind both Bri...

The Royal Navy's primary torpedo bomber of the Second World War, the Swordfish, despite its obsolescence, proved to be an effective anti-submarin...

Eighty years ago, six Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers flew from RAF Manston to attack the three German capital ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and ...