The RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is to miss its traditional Trooping the Colour flypast, after a fatal Spitfire crash earlier this year. The group of Second World War-vintage ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight won't be roaring over during the Trooping of the Colour on Saturday following the tragic death of Royal Air Force pilot Mark Long in a crash last month.

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) will miss the Trooping the Colour flypast on Saturday. The vintage planes, based at RAF Coningsby, were grounded last month following the death of Sqn ...

LONDON, UK — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...

He was a pilot in the Battle of Britain at age 21. Those who fought in the three-and-a-half-month battle came to be known as “The Few,” following on then PM, Sir Winston Churchill.

Mr. Hemingway, who was known as Paddy, piloted Hurricane fighters in the battle, which took place in the skies above Britain between July 10 and Oct. 31, 1940. Hitler had planned a September 1940 ...