AN AEROPLANE fanatic was stunned to find part of a Spitfire being used as a window in a customer's shed. Electrician Harry Baines was amazed when he discovered the plexiglass canopy section from the ...
A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...
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Why do fighter jet canopies look so weird?

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad - Spitfire Mk.XIVe with Teardrop Canopy The Spitfire Mk. XIV was originally built with a “high back” rear fuselage ...
A Spitfire's cockpit canopy detached mid-flight, causing an emergency return to Biggin Hill airport. The incident involved a Spitfire IXT, registered G-BMSB, which had taken off from London Biggin ...
The wheels are real – cast-offs from an original Spitfire. So is the fully functional Perspex canopy. The old black dials in the cockpit are genuine too, straight out of brown boxes stamped Air ...
A heritage Spitfire was forced to do an emergency landing after its engine stopped mid-flight, investigators have found. The World War Two aircraft made the emergency landing in a field in West Hythe, ...