Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ministry of Defence officials named the pilot as Squadron Leader Mark Long The pilot of a Spitfire involved in a fatal crash in ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton honored the death of Mark Long, a British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who crashed while flying a World War II-era Spitfire plane on May 25. "Incredibly sad to hear of ...

The scene of World War II propeller aircraft flying next to modern fighter jets shows how far military aviation has advanced—but also highlights the continuity of the RAF. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is ...

Britain’s Royal Air Force will ground a fleet of World War II-era aircraft following a deadly crash of one of its Spitfire fighters, the warplane famous for resisting the German Luftwaffe in the 1940 ...

"Our thoughts are with the pilot’s loved ones," the Prince and Princess of Wales said in a tribute message over the weekend Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident” near ...