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As the RAF’s Red Arrows marks its 60th display season, the Royal Mail has is honouring their contribution to Britain's aviation history. Based for many years at RAF Scampton, with its own rich Bomber Command heritage, the display team demonstrates the same pursuit of excellence as the forebears who served in WWII.

Earlier this year the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincolnshire welcomed its 500,000th visitor. The IBCC opened in 2018 and holds the largest free to access digital heritage collection on Bomber Command in the world. It contains thousands of first-hand historical accounts, photographs and documents from all sides of the war.

In a new documentary, Guy Martin helps to recover a crashed World War II Lancaster bomber, and the remains of its missing crew members, from the depths of a Dutch lake, where it has been submerged for 80 years.

The legendary artist and illustrator who created some of the most iconic images of model aircraft kits, has passed away. Roy Cross captured the imagination of generations of young boys as the principal artist for Airfix during the model kits’ heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.

Phyllis "Pippa" Latour was an Honorary Member of NZBCA. She had parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as a covert agent for SOE, where she transmitted secret messages on German troop positions in the lead-up to D-Day. Now Jude Dobson documents her remarkable story in a new book.

Squadron Leader (Rtd.) Jonathan Pote is known to many in NZBCA. He has given tremendous support to the Association over the years, a passion that reflects the enormous admiration he holds for all who served in Bomber Command. He was desevedly awarded life membership of the NZBCA at this year’s AGM.