Unlike the average Airfix kit, it took far more than the deft application of glue to get this model plane just right. But after more than 24,000 man-hours of effort the magnificent result is the ...
A WW2 fighter-bomber that played a key role in the war effort has been re-created in a scaled-up model for a history festival. Over 3,000 Hawker Typhoons were built originally, but no airworthy planes ...
A group on Vancouver Island that is rebuilding a rare Second World War-era fighter-bomber recently acquired a key component that they hope will help the aircraft take flight. The Hawker Typhoon was ...
Two women who helped construct fighter planes in World War Two have visited a project which aims to rebuild part of the aircraft they worked on. Phyllis Gough and Peggy Fisher, who are both in their ...
Between 1941 and ’45, slightly more than 3,300 Typhoons — the plane that Doug Gordon flew on D-Day — were manufactured by Hawker Aircraft. Seventy years later, only one complete aircraft of its kind ...
OTTAWA — The world’s last complete and original Hawker Typhoon will be on display in Ottawa in time for D-Day. The Second World War aircraft will be on loan to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, ...
An RAF veteran from Northern Ireland who flew a Hawker Typhoon on D-Day watched his plane's modern counterpart make a flypast in a fitting tribute to the crews that helped win the Second World War.