Let the old girl rest in peace and dignity.
It cost us a fortune to develop and produce, produced profits only in the latter years of its life that have not covered the costs, and none of us will ever convince Airbus to release the design authority - nor have the expertise to run a single-aircraft operation of a highy complex aircraft that, until last year, had a huge support network that cannot be replicated safely as a charitable foundation.
The money should go to developing new technologies to keep Britain and Europe at the forefront of aerospace, not languishing in a backward-looking misty-eyed veneration of the past.
We need those in charge of aerospace to take the lead and develop the next flagships and technologies, and not squander that expertise on maintaining the past.