Like a lot of blokes here, I have a deep regard for vintage aircraft.

My dad was RAF - late 1940s national service, stuck deep underground in a radar bunker.
I don't think he ever got airborne, but he still brought me up with a fascination for aircraft.

30 odd years ago when I worked in industrial museums,
I had the thrill of touching one of the last remaining fragments of the Bristol Brabazon...

and looking at research photos could only feel sad that such a beautiful creation had vanished forever.

That's why my inner impulse is to see these vintage planes preserved for posterity...