'Milestones to Modern' ?

Milestones to my mind is odd. It would be great just to have the aircraft housed by era, showing the progression of aviation technology from the early days of RFC then into the RAF and up to the modern age.

And painted up as a Fortress III the RAFM’s B-17 would look very different than the usual 8th AF yawn that B-17s usually end up as.

(source) That would be s simple conversion, right? And as a WWII type the B-17 is rather well represented so hopefully not so many howls of vandalism for adding that radome and arial?.

Then we could perhaps get the Liberator done up in Coastal Command decor?

Agreed in part, ‘Milestones’ does seem to me a little hap-hazard in respect Undoubtably some of the aircraft did represent a forward leap in technology but does a Me262 and the F-35 have to be in there with them? why not aircraft that represented a British leap forward as they have with the Meteor and the Mosquito. Surely a repaint of the Tempest and the Mustang into RAF markings provided they dont already carry original markings of course.

I have never really understood how many of the exhibits are laid out within the entire museum. With respect to type, then the likes of the B-17, Mustang ect are Bona fide subjects. but in US markings? Would it would be better to display them in squadron markings that operated the types? 90,220,214,223 all operated the Fortress. But with only about eighty G models, the Fortress III in RAF parlance, eventually in service, would that number warrant a repaint of Hendons example?

Would Hendon warrant being a true RAF museum of types operated by them. Other examples moved in from other museums on loan, while the non RAF marked examples moved out?

All food for thought and debate!