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Header Image: The RAF Memorial Flight Official Club will be at several air shows this year alongside the BBMF PR Team, starting with the RAF Cosford Air Show.

The RAF Memorial Flight Official Club will have a stand at the RAF Cosford Air Show on Sunday 11th June, alongside the BBMF PR Team tent in the “RAF Village” area of the showground. If you are attending the air show, do come and find us and say hello, we are always pleased to meet Club members in person. You can also join the Club or renew your membership on the day, or purchase a Club polo shirt.

Header Image: Flt Sgt Frank Mathers RAAF (fourth from left) and his crew, with a 77 Sqn Handley Page Halifax B.II at Elvington in 1943. Rear gunner, Sergeant Bill Speedie, is on the right.

Eighty years ago this month, on the night of 22nd-23rd June 1943, 21-year-old Australian pilot Flight Sergeant Frank Mathers and his British crew were on their ninth operation from their base at Elvington in Yorkshire, in a 77 Squadron Handley Page Halifax. One of 557 RAF bombers (155 of them Halifaxes), they were tasked with bombing Mulheim, an industrial centre in the Ruhr Valley, Germany.

Header image: A tour of the inside of Lancaster PA474 and its cockpit is waiting for the lucky winner of this month's ballot prize. (PA474 has dual controls, unlike operational wartime Lancasters.) (Photo: John Dibbs)

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 inside BBMF Lancaster PA474, which is very representative of operational wartime Lancasters, with the exception of having dual controls.