That comes across really mealy-mouthed, as if it was the best you can say about it.

It is a brilliant project, well executed, and marred only by erratic accessibility, and possibly a lack of in-depth captioning.

Moggy

Moggy,
I spent two excellent hours in the CGW building on Saturday morning.
The attendant, who’s name was Paul, couldn’t have been more accommodating and the exhibits are in fine fettle and more stuff is being added all the time.

The CGW building really is a treasure.
After so much complaining about the building being closed on previous visits, we took the time to write and thank the Hendon authorities that they’ve got the place open again.
I also discovered the reasons behind the stories last year regarding the heating system. The original system was a severe fire hazard as installed and did have to be completely replaced.

Andy

Former Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Knight, the chairman of the project’s trust, who commanded the bombers in the Falklands conflict, said . . . the plane is expected to fly displays for the next 15 years. . .The Vulcan was a “masterpiece of British design” and the aviation equivalent of Brunel’s SS Great Britain . . .
There you are, Mike, from the “horse’s mouth”!
See you at Reno

The SS Great Britain was a pioneering design in shipbuilding, using iron and more importantly a screw propeller for the first time.

Please explain the Vulcan bomber in the context of ‘pioneer’–it certainly wasn’t the first use of the jet engine coupled to a bomber airframe–was it?

I’m afraid I suspect that the little speech by Sir Michael was constructed by some clever media guru.

If anyone here really thinks that stuffing twenty quid in an envelope is going to save the project I suggest you write £1,000,000.00 like this rather than £1M, which the media gurus prefer to see.

then you get £1,000,000.00
– 20.00
= 999,980.00

Somebody somewhere needs to sit down and ponder these figures and make decisions from there.

As far ordinary folk who work hard to earn their wages each week go, my advice would be save it. Until you know for certain which way this is going to go for certain, the likelyhood is that you’re throwing good money after bad.

Your choice of course but there you are.

Andy

oh for christ sake get back on topic and stop this incessant bickering, honestly your like a bunch of kids sometimes!!

The Vulcan project is f*cked–on topic enough?

I can’t see anything wrong in Moggy’s post. These tangents are quite distracting, the issue under discussion is the rather woeful end of the 558 project.

I wonder how much money raised from enthusiasts was spent “chasing corporate sponsorship” and how prudently this was spent considering the lack of apparent success?

I’ve always found lunches on expenses (especially other peoples) taste so much better.

Am I alone in this?

Andy

On a lighter note, AIB hows the Indian fund going 😉
TT

TT,
my Indian fund is also suffering from cash shortfalls and cost ‘uplifts’ I’m afraid to say.

A corporate sponsor is what’s required.

Andy

What a crying shame for such a valiant effort to be so close to failure now. I tip my hat to all involved for having tried so hard. Some how though, with so much work having been done, and all the OEM component work done, I doubt this will be the end. major corporate groups will always wait until a project is on its knees before offering to rescue it for peanuts. Harsh but normal practice for greedy blue chips. I wouldnt be surprised if one or two are watching from a far.

Please explain to me then, where will be the profit motive for them if they do that?

Whether they want to pay peanuts or not–they’ll still need to pump in millions of Pounds to get it to fly and keep it flying.
There’s no profit in this project for anyone much, except Marshalls I would imagine.

There are no corporate sponsors because to attract corporate sponsors, companies need to see some benefit from it.
What sort of company would see a potential increase in annual turnover from sponsoring this project–a large anorak manufacturer??–milletts perhaps??

Get real, airshows and the people who go to them are not generally seen as ‘main stream’ and as such corporate sponsors aren’t interested.

Andy.

I believe it is still in the airship hangers at Dardington. Was definatly there when i was last inside about 5 years ago.

Ollie, I assume you mean Cardington and I doubt that a non rigid airship has been stored in an inflated condition for that long anywhere.

Please try and give a little rational thought before you post.
Andy

After reading this I’m so glad I went–to Old warden!!!!

Someone said to me earlier that this is a major event–my response was ‘What like World War 2 or the Black Death, you mean?’

Bored, bored and bored.

Andy