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On top of this month’s ballot prize for Club members, we’re also giving away some bonus prizes. Three lucky people will win a copy of D-Day: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes.

Complete the entry from below by 31 August 2019 to be in with a chance of winning. This competition is open to everybody, so please do share it with your friends and family. Our three winners will be drawn at random and contacted by email in September.

Header image: The visitors and BBMF Hurricane PZ865 in the colours of their relative’s aircraft, with Sqn Ldr Clive Rowley MBE RAF (Retd) on the left and OC BBMF, Sqn Ldr Mark ‘Disco’ Discombe AFC, fourth from left. OC BBMF is holding the original nose art panel, painted by Jimmy Whalen in 1944, along with Jimmy’s spare set of flying goggles. (Photo: RAF Coningsby Photo Section Crown Copyright)

Since 2012 BBMF Hurricane Mk IIC PZ865 has been painted in the South East Asia Command, 34 Squadron colours of the personal aircraft of Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Whalen DFC RCAF. Jimmy Whalen was shot down and killed by Japanese ground fire on 18th April 1944, whilst he was flying another Hurricane, five days before his 24th birthday. At the end of the 2019 display season PZ865 will be flown to Biggin Hill to undergo a ‘Major’ maintenance programme under contract with The Spitfire Company, from which it will emerge in a new colour scheme as an all-black 247 Squadron night-fighter Hurricane.

Header image: The winner of the Official Club ballot prize for May, Lorraine Abraham (right) and her husband Richard (left) in the cockpit of BBMF Lancaster PA474 on 10th July. (Photo: Clive Rowley)

The lucky winner of the Official Club ballot prize for May, an internal tour of BBMF Lancaster PA474, visited the Flight’s hangar at RAF Coningsby on 10th July to explore inside the ‘Lanc’.