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Header image: A BBMF Spitfire cockpit is waiting for the lucky winner of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club ballot prize for May.

This month one lucky member of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club will win a ‘money cannot buy it’ opportunity to experience what it is like to sit in the cockpit of a BBMF Spitfire.

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 31 May 2017. You will be entered into this month’s prize draw and will receive a Club membership pack by post. Members can also claim free aircraft hangar tours at the BBMF Visitor Centre and will receive our Club magazine twice a year as well as monthly e-newsletters with content exclusive to Club members.

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Header image: Vickers Wellingtons made up the majority of the force that took part in the RAF’s first 1,000 bomber raid. Some were from Operational Training Units, such as these from No 16 OTU at RAF Barford St John, a satellite airfield for Upper Heyford. (artwork: Gary Eason flightartworks.com)

RAF Bomber Command’s first 1,000 bomber raid – codenamed Operation Millennium – took place 75 years ago this month on the night of 30th/31st May 1942.

The 2017 edition of Royal Air Force Salute is dedicated entirely to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in its 60th anniversary year. Now on sale at just £5.99, it’s available from retailers including WHSmith and selected supermarkets, or direct from Key Publishing.

Officially endorsed by the Royal Air Force and produced by Key Publishing, RAF Salute 2017 provides a spectacular biopic of the BBMF, 60 years on from its formation as the Historic Aircraft Flight at Biggin Hill.