Fly replicas: preserve the original. You can have both.

But what we see is wanton destruction; you wouldn’t expect it of Stonehenge (let’s finish it off and maybe stone clad it while we’re there?) but for some reason we are sleep-walking into this constant, repeated process with warbirds.

What we also see is a constant process of gaslighting and deliberate obtuseness to try and create a narrative about warbirds not being able to fly anymore. No-one’s ever said that, but any time you bring up the subject of destruction of artefacts you get the same deliberately-missed-the-point reply.

And these aircraft arguably belong to all of us; warbird owners should buy into the notion that they are custodians of our heritage. But money talks, and by the time people wake up, it will be too late for many.