Damien - some could argue that the RAF museum's slavish collecting policy initially of RAF aircraft didn't do them a lot of harm!
The Museum of Flight is a national funded museum which receives funding from the Scottish Executive. The notion of having to attract extra income from 'crowd pullers' isn't really necessary.
Of course the museum has to pay it's way to some degree but the current plan calls for the Concorde to occupy the hangar housing light aviation purely on it's own - whilst the Concorde is certainly interesting does it justify having a complete hangar to itself?
The idea of having a Scottish built Bulldog has a lot of merit - by all means the prototype could be passed on to another
collection. Aircraft such as the Shackleton should form a part of the collection - the present collection whilst interesting holds some types which are of little relevance - maybe sell some and acquire types like the Heron ,Hurricane, Fox Moth and Islander
Last edited by RileyDove; 12th Dec 2003 at 05:29.