I worked at East Fortune for a number of years. Although it is nominally a national museum, until the past few years the Museum of Flight has been run on an absolute shoestring budget compared to the other national aviation collections. When you visit you are looking at the cumulative effects of 25+ years of tiny museums staffs who have worked bloody hard to try make bricks from straw as best they could. DamienB's comments are right on the money in terms of the reality of the situation, and he is the only person in the whole of this thread so far who has stopped to think about this from the perspective of the general public (as opposed to the narrow vision of the aircraft enthusiast) which comprises 99% of Scottish taxpayers and over 95% of the annual attendance at East Fortune.