In 50+ years

Sadly I fear Spitfireman might be correct.
I’ve often wondered myself how we go on when historic jet aircraft are so expensive to maintain.
The only way I can see is ‘approved’ non OEM suppliers and maintainers if that can be done safely. Even so it wouldn’t be very affordable in the current financial climate.
I think we are all going to have to pick a project and support it whatever the cost. Most of us have had to do that with XH558 and it seems that might also be the case with Sally B. Use it or lose it. We choose to have a hobby that just happens to be expensive.

There are a lot of Gazelle helicopters now stored awaiting buyers, with considerable spares. Probably easy to maintain and preserve (Falklands vets)

I think that in fifty years or so there will be no airshows anyway.

Given the age of Vietnam vets & the number of surplus Hueys out there, I could see where they have “Gathering Of The Hueys” instead of P51’s… There seems to be less than 10 on the display circuit so far…
1 in Texas (based with LSFM) Think this is the Collins Foundation bird.
1 in the UK
3 in Indiana:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/IASAR-Indiana-Air-Search-and-Rescue/335157712476?ref=stream
http://www.americanhuey369.org/
2 in Califailure:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HueyVets-EMU-Inc/200731579979028?ref=stream
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wings-and-Rotors-Air-Museum/349226597438?ref=stream
1 in Georgia(?) non flyer, bolted to a trailer used in parades etc.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/project425/

What aircraft are left from the Falklands war?

Why not get the RNHF flying a SHar, it wouldn’t be the first jet they operate 😀

Do you think there will be any fuel left to fly anything on anyway?

Hercs, that’s if we are not living in a nuclear wilderness

50 Years !!!!

Virtual machines at Virtual airshows,and the ability to be part of any aerial activity you choose (virtually of course).
Historians will be debating whose plastic copy of a replica of a replica is the most authentic, but will need an original ‘isopon p38’ lid to be of any value.

The Chinese will rediscover the Turbulent and mass produce them, thereby saving the world from virtual boredom.

Spitfire corner in Cornwall will be a place of pilgrimage for those awaiting news of the finding of original moulds from a genuine MK1.

Someone will find the remains of my old Aerial Huntmaster in the Kenley woods and claim it is a Bulldog.

Not doubting that, however, with spiralling costs, insurance, fuel, beefburgers £25 each, H&S, less airfields, no air force, permanent crappy weather………..

The public appetite for the spectacle that is an air show remains strong. What other format, besides sport, can bring a diverse crowd of old, young, enthusiast, mum, dad, kids etc together?

There are a lot of Gazelle helicopters now stored awaiting buyers, with considerable spares. Probably easy to maintain and preserve (Falklands vets)

I think that in fifty years or so there will be no airshows anyway.

No worries, with all the perfectly preserved buried Spitfires (allegedly) in just about every factory site and airfield dated from WW2, we will have more airworthy Spitfires around than during the Battle of Britain, possibly. :rolleyes:

🙂 Thats near enough our airforce.

You only need to preserve one aircraft – Chinook ZA718….

Falklands, Gulf 1/2, Bosnia, Afghanistan (and others) all in one!

methinks, it’s time to dig a hole in the garden – so that my children can tell stories abouit ‘big holes full of buried …..’

What about the Falklands war?

What aircraft are left from the Falklands war? ,my point being that from the end of WW11 to the present day few if any will be left as flying memorials.

What about the Falklands war?