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Header image: Top: Robert McClements has made a short film about the German night-intruder operation ‘Gisela’ in tribute to his father, Robert McClement senior (bottom left), who was a 10 Sqn Halifax mid-upper gunner, and his father’s friend Flt Lt John ‘Jack’ Lafolley RCAF (bottom centre), a 10 Sqn Halifax pilot who was killed on 4th March 1945, along with four of his crew, when they were shot down by one of the Luftwaffe night intruders within sight of the airfield they were attempting to land at.

Header image: A BBMF Spitfire cockpit is waiting for the lucky winner of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club ballot prize for March. (Photo: Lisa Harding)

For this month’s ballot prize, one lucky Club member will win a ‘money cannot buy it’ opportunity to experience what it is like to sit in the cockpit of a BBMF Spitfire.

We will randomly select one Club member to win the prize.

Header image: James, Tom, and Dave from Runway25, along with Craig and Nicky from Crash Gate Aviation, hand over a cheque for £7,685 to OC BBMF, Sqn Ldr Mark ‘Suggs’ Sugden, raised in memory of Sqn Ldr Mark Long for the Flying Scholarship for the Disabled in his name.