Why? Does she absorb electricity or something similar?

You’re wrong.

We buy electricity from France and Norway because the green zealots said wind and solar could make up for closing the coal and gas fired power stations.

They were wrong too.

You have to remember – Oracal knows everything.

There was NO £6.5 million of public donations. There was £6.5 million of public donations directly to VTTS, solely FOR THE VULCAN.

Other than that, it did not exist and would not have existed so couldn’t have been spent on anything.

As for the original promise about delivery to Duxford, I seem to recall nobody asked Duxford if they wanted it, which would seem unlikely as they’ve already got a Vulcan.

I very much doubt it’s going to consume any more money as people have had enough and the costs will be enormous.

I hope I’m wrong but I fear saucepans…

It’s all very well coming out – yet again – and saying “the money spent on the Vulcan could have saved etc” but the fact is, it wouldn’t have done.

There was no pot of cash waiting to be spent, it was raised from Joe Public, and a few OEM manufacturers, with the specific intention of returning one particular airframe to flight.

End of story, as VTTS found out when they came up with the pie in the sky project to return the one-time world altitude record holder Canberra to flight.

Admirable though the idea is, a Canberra has no place in the hearts of the Great British Public, as VTTS discovered when cash didn’t come flooding in. Did it even come trickling in?

When it’s put back together where?

There is no available hangar, or likely to be one, anywhere near large enough for a beast the size of a Beverley.

If it’s stored with the intention of reassembling it sometime, it would merely be delaying the inevitable.

Out of those 7.8 billion people, how many actually care?

Re frame numbers.

Isn’t the main bulkhead on a Spitfire Frame 5?

Apart from a dirty great Merlin, that’s almost at the front.