My understanding is that two VC-10s are earmarked for preservation, C.1K XR808 is going to RFAM Cosford, due to being first to enter RAF service.
One other will be preserved at Brunty, I understand it will be one of the last to leave service and arrive at the site.

Personally speaking I really hope that a ‘Super’ K.3 or K.4 tanker (as Cosford are having a transport / tanker C.1K) will be preserved, just because of the incredible service that they have gave in previous lives to the airlines, and given the RAF in the tanker role over many war zones.
K.4 ZD241 would be on my list due to its history and having the most hours flown.

That pretty well confirms JagRiggers post!
It looks to be an earlier GR.1, and coded B, wonder which serial?

The Leducs (0.10, 0.16, 0.21 & 0.22) were only superficially like the M.52, ie the cockpit being in the centre of the annular fuselage engine intake, the wings were very different.
The 0.10 (0.16 was a brief conversion) & 0.21 were purely ramjet powered and were air launched from a Languedoc, the 22 was swept winged and powered by turbojet aswel as the ramjet.
The Miles was intended to be powered by the afterburning W.2 turbojet of course.

Three Leduc 0.10/16s, two .21s & one .22 were built and flew during the test programme, by brave pilots I reckon! Interestingly project was first commenced in 1938!

Not brilliant, but this 3 Sqn page gives an idea of what their Sabres looked like,
http://www.rafweb.org/SqnMark003D.htm

Good find, but the triangular panel that is hanging off ahead of the windscreen in that pic is in place when this P-40 was discovered.

I notice the original album of the find has gone or been removed.

JT, I have to disagree with your last para, surely it is possible in theory that many examples of museum aircraft could fly?
Yes it would be a massive engineering challange or a major rebuild in most cases, but that would be money and interest driven, if the aircraft needs more money than the interest can deliver then the engineering won’t follow.

Reality is something else of course, suggestions of B-52, Concorde, & SR-71 flying are far fetched, some aircraft such as the aforementioned Sunderland and some notables with wing spar cuts are pretty well non candidates.
I was having a good look around the FAAM Gannet the other day, and there doesn’t appear to be much that could stop that being restored to flight.

The argument of what should fly or remain as static not withstanding of course!

Didn’t we have a thread here recently about museum aircraft that have flown again? Strathallan springs to mind.

But even read out instruments have far more complicated and finer engineered mechs than what is presented here, be it recent or back to the ’50s, remotely gyro’d or not.
Even a wartime art horizon is more complicated within.
I have a fair few dissected from different eras, I don’t buy this as being flight or development related, unless as a basic demonstration piece, even then it would seem pointless.

Like some of the PPrune ideas, esp Fiat Panda!