The night before a jump is like the night before the battle. You wait. You wonder. You get ready. And you know, when you go ...

Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes ...

For fear of an aircraft being shot down and recovered ... markets as industry shifted to rebuilding the nation. British military strategy changed in the years following World War II, with investments ...

The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World ...

The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who ...

Members of the Royal Family has led tributes after the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, passed ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

British, Canadian and American forces took ... than his time as an Army private manning a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft unit. "It's like flying a brick – there's only one way, and it's down ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Britain's trade minister Jonathan Reynolds made the case for a British exemption from tariffs to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a recent phone call. The U.S. accounts for about 5% of UK ...

Russia accused two British diplomats on Monday of spying and gave them two weeks to leave the country, reinforcing the downward trajectory of Moscow's diplomatic relations with Europe even as it ...

These days, the time from design to usage of anything in a weapons or battlefield environment is weeks, and the British procurement process is ... referring to the World War II-era minister who ...