In 1942, now flying with the elite JG 5 fighter group, the Bf 109 was piloted by rising ace Wulf-Dieter Widitz, who quickly ...
​Squadron Leader Paul Day, who has died aged 83, was a Cold War fighter pilot who served on the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) for 24 years, during which time he amassed ...
Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...