I just made a small donation for the restoration of an aircraft I probably will never visit.
So what’s this? As a cheapskate I seldom donate and it’s usually for the Finnish WW2 veterans, for the people who survived while keeping this country independent by the skin of their teeth.
What’s so special about this aircraft, then? It’s not even from the era I’m interested in, WW2, while a concept created during the wartime though.

In the beginning of the 1970’s, from the age of six, I started to peruse the Finnish edition of Commando Comics and there had to be wings involved in every volume. At the same time I got my first scale model, either a Hawker Hurricane or Vought F4U Corsair. No painting, no fuss, just the smell of glue(which could explain a great many things…) and hasty assembly of parts sticking to my fingers.
That’s the way it stuck. To such a degree that while getting past the most hasty teenage years, I found the rudimentary computer simulations and with flaming engines flew the Lancaster to the Mohne dam with assistance of the Commodore 64. Simulations were something I have given up only lately. In context with online battling in an international community, I had my greatest experiences meeting with these people in air shows(Real Life ^tm).

And the movies! Plenty of them but only one on top: ‘Battle of Britain'(1969). Nothing like that were made before and nothing like that has been made since. There has been a burst of aviation films lately but they are all Computer Generated Imagery. There is a strict difference between game graphics and a fleet of real warbirds, directed into their beautiful and deadly ballet from a single converted camera bomber painted with bright colors, where the director keeps constant connection with the actors/pilots, with real danger of collisions etc. constantly present. The result, watched from the silver screen, is more breathtaking than any ‘flat’ computer graphics. And you can’t cheat with physics, a trap many CGI films have fallen into. Of course, those aged model scenes can’t compete anymore with the CGI magic.

Pilot’s license? No, sorry. No chance to respawn after crash. Also due pure medical reasons I have become officially aware only recently but knew they were there. Though I may have unofficially steered some Cessna a bit. I may know the difference between a cozy gaming chair and a rudimentary seat jumping and shaking up there.
Also, travelling by air has me always squeezing the seat during take-offs and the turbulent air up there causes more than little inconvenience.

Such is this flying hero.

So, in the details described above, hides the answer: I hate to see the history of the aviation being scrapped to extinction. Blackburn Beverley XB259 is the last of its kind, what is left of a transport fleet of 49 aircraft, withdrawn from service in 1967. Without needed funding the plane is facing scrapping. Should you have interest and some extra money bothering there, visit the pages of https://www.solway-aviation-museum.co.uk/.