Tin Triangle – spot on. Its exactly what we need to see if we are to see the preservation sector continue to flourish. Smaller museums need to be able to spend more of their time on fewer airframes, and lose those that are already adequately catered for elsewhere.

Its a mistake I freely admit to when I was making acquisitions for the DH Museum – at the time, it made sense to me to acquire as much as I could to improve the ‘stock’ of the museum. However, when, at one point there were only about 6 of us looking after the entire collection, I should have heard the alarm bells. Thankfully, numbers recovered, but there are still more airframes than there are people to care for them, and this is repeated in many other places. Unless a building scheme can keep pace with conservation, much of what we do could end up being self defeating.

Bruce