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Old 12th Feb 2009, 20:06
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If I understand correctly the implications of this proposal, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) would expand into the Memorial Flight.

This expansion would be courting disaster for the long term future of BBMF because the bean counters would see an unsustainably large expenditure on these historic aircraft and inevitably the result would be the demise of the whole flight in a few years time.

The Flight currently maintains really important historic aircraft types that greatly contributed to this Country's success in war. The Vulcan, important as she may be to British engineering, is simply not in that category and she is disproportionately expensive to home and maintain compared to the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster.

Although I understand the sentiment I am afraid of the consequences if these retired dignatories have their way.
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