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Header image: Hurricane Mk IIC PZ865 in flight (photo: Mark Meades)

Forty-five years ago this month, on Wednesday 29th March 1972, Hawker Siddeley’s Chief Test Pilot, Duncan Simpson OBE, landed Hurricane PZ865 at RAF Coltishall behind a Lightning jet fighter of the Station’s Operational Conversion Unit. He taxied to the aircraft servicing pan, adjacent to the BBMF hangar, and shut down. He was not expected and nor was the fact that he was delivering this precious, company-owned artefact of the nation’s aviation heritage into the hands of the RAF’s Memorial Flight.

Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 26 March this year. If you’re looking for present ideas, we’d be very grateful if you’d consider buying a Club membership pack. The pack makes a great gift, it provides the first year’s membership for the Club and you’ll be directly supporting the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) by purchasing one.

This month, one member of the RAF Memorial Flight Club will win a family ticket to The Scramble Experience at the National Memorial to the Few, Capel-le-Ferne, Kent. 

How to enter the ballot
 
All current members of the RAF Memorial Flight Club have been automatically entered into this month’s ballot. If you’re not already a member, please join the Club before 28 February 2017.