Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe

If the twentieth century was the century of the aeroplane, it begins to look as though the twenty‐first will be the century of the aeroplane museum. So many aircraft are becoming surplus to requirements that obtaining one to preserve is neither particularly difficult nor necessarily initially expensive. But then the problems, technical and financial, begin. Transporting the relic may be difficult and certainly will be costly (the Concorde in the Museum of Flight in South East Scotland travelled, dismantled, by barge and then by low loader across fields); preserving it is also both tricky and costly: an aeroplane either needs...