Am I the only one that finds the idea of a Stuka "gracing the skies" above the Home Counties, or anywhere else, a rather odd one? I certainly don't object to Lancasters and B 29s flying around (although I doubt that anyone would suggest that a Lancaster should fly over Dresden). Unfair inconsistency? Winner's history? I'd say: no, there's a difference between machines that helped to save democracy, and machines which are symbols of an aggressive totalitarian regime. There's something particular about the image of a Stuka diving on a column of refugees or on the Warsaw ghetto and I for one won't mind if all the remaining J 87s stay in museums. Put it another way, we need to know, and teach children about, gas chambers, but we don't need working models of them.
Anyone for a flypast of Heinkel biplanes at Guernica?