Cover story · Special article No. 2The Six-Year SkyThe Second World War in the airBlitzkrieg to the atomic missions in one interactive history, with the aircraft that fought it.Read it →
Supplements
Book-length histories of one aeroplane
Supplement No. 1The SpitfireA biography in 24 marksFrom the Schneider Trophy seaplanes through every mark to the sixty-odd still flying, and the museums where you can find them.
Supplement No. 2The VampireBritain’s jet in a wooden jacketA plywood pod at wartime Hatfield, the first jet aboard a carrier, and forty-seven years of service.
Special articles
The big questions, argued in full
Special articleWho Flew First?The Wrights or Santos-DumontKitty Hawk in 1903 or Paris in 1906? The evidence, the photographs and a verdict.
Special article No. 2The Six-Year SkyThe Second World War in the airBlitzkrieg to the atomic missions in one interactive history, with the aircraft that fought it.
Anniversary 2026The Spitfire at 90Ninety years since K5054The anniversary events, the Duxford Big Wing and where to see a Spitfire in its birthday year.
Field guides
Where to go and what you will find
Field guideThe Best MuseumsAll 118, rankedThe national collections, the free ones and the small hangars worth a detour.Filed under Museums
Regional guideBomber CountyLincolnshire’s aviation museumsEast Kirkby, IBCC Lincoln, the BBMF at Coningsby and the day-trip routes between them.Filed under Museums
Field guideHangars & BoneyardsIs there a plane graveyard in Britain?The honest answer, plus the historic hangars, Cold War shelters and stored airframes you can visit.
Field listFree MuseumsNo ticket requiredTwenty-nine free stations and eight donation museums across Britain.Filed under Museums
Where to see
Every example of one type in Britain
Where to seeA SpitfireEvery museum airframe, every flying example, and where you can climb in.Filed under Aircraft
Where to seeA LancasterPA474 flying from Coningsby, Just Jane taxiing at East Kirkby, and the static survivors.Filed under Aircraft
Where to seeA VulcanNone fly, but three still run their engines at full, howling power.Filed under Aircraft
Where to seeConcordeAll six on display in Britain, and which ones you can board.Filed under Aircraft
Out and about
Airshows and the low-flying jets
Calendar 2026AirshowsThe season, datedMilitary shows, free seafront displays and warbird weekends, with venues and tickets.
Field guideMilitary Fly-bysTen places to watch the jetsThe Mach Loop, the Lake District, Lakenheath and more, with maps and film of real sorties.
PrimerHow to Spot Military AircraftWeekday low-flying times, the twenty LFAs, the tracking apps and spotting etiquette.
Play
Games and builds
Playable supplementVoxel Front, 1944Order the raids and ride along: a Spitfire low over the Normandy beach-head, in voxels. A game, in a magazine.
Junior detachmentPlane CrazyLeo’s Roblox buildsBuild it, fly it, crash it: a squadron made in the Roblox sandbox.
Arcade · spitfiregame.comSpitfire1939–1945, a campaign in seven missionsFly a Spitfire from Poland to Berlin over real satellite terrain, Mk I to Mk IX, against the Luftwaffe of each year.