Nice shots. One or two types we don’t see in the UK.
mmitch.

I accept that the IWM is about all artifacts of War but other museums like the Chatham Historic Dockyard have the facilities to store and restore boats.
There is a large collection of RNLI boats at Chatham as well as a destroyer and a submarine. I think the hangars on a historic airfield should be filled with aeroplanes especially when some are decaying outside.
mmitch.

All the spares have been dispersed (some to help restore museum airframes) Once they are not traceable they cannot be used in airworthy aircraft. Some of the paper work was disposed/destroyed. BA did a paper exercise to see if one aircraft could be maintained for ‘heritage flights’. It would not only been very expensive but quite impracticable as a team of engineers would have to be employed monitoring its systems. The aircraft was designed to fly 100 passengers supersonically, not flying circuits at airshows. It could not carry passengers as its certificate had been withdrawn by Airbus.
The Vulcan to the Sky has enough obstacles to overcome, Concorde would have many more. It’s a shame, but no chance.
mmitch.

I went to the last B Ae Hatfield open day in 1989. I believe the workers and families got in free and us ‘outsiders’ paid (a fiver?) a donation to local charities. A wonderful display and tour of the 146 production line. It seemed very generous to me, certainly memorable.
mmitch.

Wow How many PAX does that take? 😮
mmitch.

An excellent museum run by a small band of enthusiastic volunteers. I haven’t been for about five years, but the signs from the nearby A75 were almost non existent then. I tried to get the Tourist Board to do something about it but nothing happened while I was there.
mmitch.

Presumably you have seen Concorde SST? Many pages of historical information there.
http://www.concordesst.com/
Also this site on aerofoils
http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads.html
mmitch.