A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

The model plane was a project that Ray Burden started in lockdown in 2020 A man from a Warwickshire village spent five years constructing a quarter scale model of a Spitfire fighter plane to honour ...

MODEL plane fans hoping to build a magazine’s Spitfire replica face paying out £1,200 over two years. Hachette Partwork tempt readers with a £1.99 first edition and £5.99 for the second. To complete ...

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A DRIVING instructor who decided the cost of a Spitfire flight experience was too expensive has fulfilled his dream by building a working replica of the real thing. Alan James spent three years ...

Former driving instructor Alan James shelled out £18,000 on three-year project A PLANE MAD flight buff has fulfilled his childhood dream of being a fighter pilot by building a working SPITFIRE in his ...

A man from a Warwickshire village spent five years constructing a quarter scale model of a Spitfire fighter plane to honour veterans. Ray Burden built the plane out of plywood, using aircraft plans ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years a model Spitfire has stood in a village garden as a tribute to The Few. For more than 40 years a model Spitfire has stood in a village garden as a tribute to The Few. But old ...