A Browning machine gun found in a downed Spitfire has been fired for the first time in 70 years. The weapon worked despite being buried in peat since the aeroplane that housed it plummeted to earth in ...

The Supermarine Spitfire emerged from a flawed interwar fighter competition to become Britain’s most iconic aircraft. Its ...

When the remains of a World War II Spitfire Mark II fighter plane — donated to the Royal Air Force by Canada’s Weston family — were plucked from an Irish bog earlier this year, there was another ...

The Spitfire Mk1’s eight .303 Browning machine guns were lethal when aligned correctly - and this convergence test shows why.

An excavation at the site of a 1941 Spitfire crash in a bog in the Irish Republic uncovered huge, remarkably preserved chunks of plane and six Browning machine guns. After 70 years buried in peat ...

A blue tit shoots out to grab some food...from the gun of a Spitfire fighter. An adult pair of birds have built a nest in the 20mm cannon of a Second World War Mark 9 where they raise their chicks.

Its connection to the world of aviation has always given IWC an edge of authenticity when it comes to creating the Pilot’s Watch. With the company’s long history of supplying military with timekeepers ...

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