Originally Posted by
MaxR
I think that you're mistaken there, the fact that Duxford is a living airfield has always been important to IWM.
Not any more it seems; all these "museum professionals" climbing the their own world promotion ladder, it is only a matter of time before someone comes in to 'make their own impression' compared to their predecessors. It's happened before elsewhere (Wroughton/Science Museum quoted above one of many examples), in fact I wonder if there's some turf war over aircraft going on between the IWM and the Science Museum. One of the signs is big, expensive projects where they are going to "re-visualise the interpretation", which is often a euphemism for putting half the exhibits into store where they are rarely/never seen again.
Flying Legends was surely THE show at Duxford; before the advance booking silliness it must have given them the biggest attendance of the year.