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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...