The pen comes in its own beautiful ash wood presentation box with hand worked leather strapping. The Spitfire Pen costs £170, and is available from The Hordern Richmond Aircraft Company's website.

A Spitfire propeller has been unearthed by archaeologists who have been granted permission to continue a dig, despite the discovery of a bone fragment. A cigarette case and parts of bodywork have ...

It is wooden, painted green with paper stickers, only simple metal propellers and no rubber wheels, at a time when toy shops were fairly empty, as British toy factories were being turned over to ...

The Harvard is more stable. It has a lot more power and a more sophisticated propeller system, but it’s a clunky brute of a thing next to the Spitfire which is, of course, the reason we’re all ...

Later models of the Spitfire could fly well over 400mph in level flight, thanks to their powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and the four-bladed propeller that helped generate extra thrust.

A Spitfire propeller has been unearthed by archaeologists who have been granted permission to continue a dig, despite the discovery of a bone fragment. A cigarette case and parts of bodywork have ...