It would be pretty cool, although I've got my own doubts about how much money can be justified to keep large jets flying down the years. I love them as much as the next man, but if we want to keep many of them around we are talking millions of pounds, dollars or whatever you choose.
Anyway, there are plenty of people who do think they should keep going - and it's fair to say that few aircraft would look better as the years roll by than the Avro Vulcan - a stratgegic nuclear bomber with fighter-like handling. Like the Spitfire, the Vulcan scarcely has an ugly line on it, and in the air it is simply thrilling.
As you can read here a British group has been trying to get one airborne again, and has had some financial success - unfortunately it needs still more. I wish them luck.
The Vulcan has nearly as many stories about it as the English Electric Lightning I talked about earlier. There are plenty of them here.
When I was in the RAF there were numerous ex-Vulcan pilots among the flying instructors because the Vulcan force was being run down, and I was brought up on V-force stories of varying plausibility. But I quite liked the one from the very last days of the type when a few were being used for electronic surveillance of the USSR in what turned out to be the closing years of the Cold War.
They tested the exact location of the Soviet border quite a bit, and one of our instructors once filled in his flight-plan - sent to assorted ATC authorities - 'for information Leningrad FIR'.
Chris duly gave his commanding officer "a good listening to" and is today safely ensconsed as a management pilot in a much safer operation.