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Header image: The newly refurbished BBMF briefing room. (Photo: Clive Rowley)

The briefing room in the BBMF headquarters at RAF Coningsby has recently been completely refurbished by ‘self-help’ DIY with the funding provided by the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club. The briefing room is used to brief all the pilots and crews flying BBMF sorties, for ground training sessions and other general Flight briefings. It is, therefore, an important part of the BBMF operations.

Header image: George Morley Fidler

For over eight decades RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader George Morley Fidler has lain buried in the fields of France, strapped to his seat in the cockpit of his wrecked Hurricane, lost but not forgotten. He was shot down by a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 86 years ago this month, on 19th May 1940, during the Battle of France.