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Janessa Griffith from Ontaria, Canada visited the RAF Museum just to see her grandmother's image in our War Brides exhibition. Her grandmother Kathleen is from Yorkshire and married a young Canadian airman who was flying Lancasters during WW2. After they married, she, like 44,000 other war brides and their 21,000 children emigrated to Canada in the wake of a war in which romance flourished between locals and soldiers stationed overseas. The romance did not always endure and many war brides struggled to adjust to a new life in a far away country. According to Janessa, her 'nana' was fortunate she moved to a large town, rather than live in the isolating countryside, a fate which befell many war brides. Kathleen, now 95 years young, is still living in Canada. The War Brides exhibition is still on display in our Art Gallery and entrance is free. For more information, visit our website: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/news/war-brides/

The RAF Museum is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring a series of academic prizes designed to inspire and reward high-quality research by up and coming scholars. Applications which consider the historiography of the RAF are particularly welcomed. The prizes are not, however, confined to works focused on the RAF and are open to students whose studies will further the Museum’s knowledge in relevant areas of archaeology, international relations, strategic studies, law and ethics, museology or air power. Works which help expand knowledge of operational conditions, adversaries or the context of the RAF’s history are also eligible. Applications are open now for the RAF Museum’s: • PhD Bursary (£1,500) • Masters Prize (£250) • Undergraduate Prize (£150) Applications close on 25 October 2019. To apply for one of this year's academic prizes, please click on the link below: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/news/RAF-Museum-academic-prizes-2019/

London Spitfire 10K 2019

Last Saturday's Spitfire 10K was a tremendous success! If you participated, don’t forget to order your race photos online. If you do this in the next two weeks you can save 10%. Just head to My Sport Photos through the link below. https://buy.mysportphotos.co.uk/?Action=_VC&id=339986204&ppwd=london%20spitfire%2010k%202019

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The Air League is celebrating its 110th Anniversary and to celebrate the RAF Museum Youth Panel has produced a new exhibition. Find out about the work of the Air League and how it has encouraged young men and women to take up careers in aviation and aerospace. The Air League 110th Anniversary Exhibition is open now in Hangar 2 at the RAF Museum London.

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The Spitfire 10K and the Spitfire Family Run have just finished! Thank you to all runners and to all those who came out to help us make this year's edition a great success!

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The Spitfire 10K !

Vulcan navigators try the Dambusters Virtual Reality Experience

Two Vulcan navigators came to try our exciting Dambusters Virtual Reality Experience! We asked them what it was like to fly the Avro Vulcan jet at low altitude and especially, how do they compare it to the famous 1943 Lancaster raid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUPyprOXmiY

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Tomorrow we will be holding the Spitfire 10k and the 1k Spitfire Family Run at our London site. If you are not participating in either of these events and intend visiting us by car, please plan to arrive after 12.00pm. We anticipate substantial demand for parking at our site by people taking part in both of these runs and we cannot guarantee car-parking for other visitors until later in the day. Alternatively, we would suggest that people travel to us by public transport. The 303 bus will drop you off at our gates from either Colindale or Mill Hill Broadway Station. To find how to reach these stations, please go to: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/plan-your-day/map-and-directions.aspx

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A recent enquiry was sent to our Research Department by David Kiefer, a former volunteer with the Museum's Aircraft Access Team. While he was in Brisbane, he found out that his boss’s father was a Hawker Typhoon pilot in WW2, called Pilot Officer J McLaughlin. David scanned the pilot's logbook and send it to Andrew Dennis, curator in the RAF Museum London Archives. One amazing page shows that he was shot down on a raid and his logbook was annotated with “missing from operation”. However, McLaughlin managed to evade capture and with the help of the Dutch resistance, escaped through Belgium and France into neutral Spain, from where he got back to the UK. He then got his logbook back and rubbed out those words and wrote in a summary of what happened.

Conversation Café Volunteers (with ESOL Learners)

Would you like to make a difference in your community? Or even just looking for a chance to meet new people? Then you should consider joining the conversation café. The conversation café gives non-English speakers a chance to practice their language skills in a relaxed and supportive environment. This makes a big difference to participants social skills, mental health and confidence within the community. As a volunteer, you will be aided by Barnett and Southgate College to communicate meaningful conversations with participants in order to improve their English skills and help make friends along the way. If you would like to help us in our mission, sessions start Wednesdays from the 25th September. Click the link to find out more information and apply today. https://bit.ly/2I6W1MC

Al Murray Talks about Our Spitfire Cockpit Experience

Our MK16 Spitfire Cockpit Tours will be returning to our London site from Tuesday 3 September. Here, Al Murray 'The Pub Landlord' talks about the thrill of sitting in a Spitfire cockpit at a recent visit to our London site. Our MK 16 Spitfire Cockpit Tours will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and at Weekends. The cost of each tour is £10 per person, with each tour lasting approximately 10 minutes. There's no need to book, just drop in. We're open daily from 10.00am. Admission to our London site is free of charge. To learn more about this experience, please visit: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/events/the-spitfire-experience-2018/