I take your points on board WebPilot, but in a couple of ways I seem to have been misunderstood. When I mention exhibit rotation and movement etc, I’m not really talking about moving aircraft outside, especially in the long term. What I meant was that in a building such as ‘Divided World’ or the proposed beacon thingy, each exhibit has been pre-planned, and has it’s place inside the building where it will stay for the forseeable future. I accept that large airframes are a problem, but the design of both of these buildings does/would preclude the movement of most of the airframes held within it, whatever thier size. This prevents any serious attempt to shuffle things around within the building, or to swap places in other exhibition halls. The recent retirement of Nimrod is a case in point, perhaps with a more conventional design some indoor space could have been found for one amongst its Cold War stablemates. As it stands, it looks as though it will have to survive outside…
The new beacon is even worse than the Cosford building in that it leaves absolutely no room for further additions, and even seems to leave one or two important types out from the very beginning (no sign of Blenheim or Gladiator in the animations). It just seems crazy that when covered space is in such short supply that you would build something that is already at capacity from day one.
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