From April to September of this year there will be numerous celebrations in honour of the Royal Air Force's 50th Anniversary, and it is highly appropriate that during this period the full plans for the Royal Air Force Museum are to be made public. The Museum is to be a new national institution maintained by the Treasury but built out of the sum obtained from a public appeal which is now in full operation.

A question constantly asked of all connected with this project is “who first thought of the idea?” The present writer has been told by at least a dozen men, all of them honest of eye and sincere of voice, that they and they alone were the only true begetter of the scheme, and it is a fact that every Station Commander who caused one or two aircraft to be preserved past the day of their official demise can feel that he and his men played some part in the slow development that has culminated in the present large-scale project.