Nope, sorry guys, still not wholly convinced!!
I can see the attraction of them being exhibits at fetes and shows, but surely the pilots of tomorrow want to sit in a comfy, reclining bang seat surrounded by VDUs resembling their playstations , x boxes etc rather than a black tub with cathodes and diodes and clocks and dials as the means of instrumental reference!?
I’m convinced that it’s a good way for the dullard penny counters at the MoD to sell the majority of a lovely aeroplane for scrap , then sell the nose to a collector and claim to have “preserved” the type!
‘Spose its not so bad with Phantoms and Jags as there are still some around, its just when those idiots at Boscombe did it to Viscounts, Varsities, Comets, research Canberras etc and other one offs
No, for me preservation is the whole, not part of it.