Still no open-ness, it would appear! £200-250K to get where? To tide the project over? To get it to first flight? To get it through flight testing? To get it ready for its first air show? The 558club website says £1.2M to get it ready for its first air display. If that’s correct, this cash call is merely another one in a sequence that seems likely to continue for some time to come. Commercial organisations like Marshall, Waltons, BAe, Rolls Royce have shareholder interests to manage in preference to sentimentality. HLF were told what it’d cost – is it their fault the figures were wrong, and why should they spend more in the belief that any further figures are any more likely to be right? Time to draw a line in the sand. Time to take a step back. Time to put a realistic plan in place that takes the aircraft from now to the show circuit. Time to assess what financial commitment is truely required, in TOTAL, to put this aircraft back on the show circuit (and beyond), with contingency funding identified in case further unforeseen overruns occur. Without the above, more money now has the potential to be throwing good money after bad. Minor donations may come in, but unless the project is put on a professional and realistic long term footing with the costs and risks clearly understood, no major commercial sponsor is likely to want to take the investment risk.

Andy

Right on the button!!

Wonder who if anyone looked for a Business plan at the start of all this??? I honestly would love to see something like the Vulcan back in the air but no one seems to be able to say how the running costs were going to be catered for in the future..looks like a distinct lack of forward thinking.

Was it ever going to be a realistic project? Is it now?

Good on you for warning people…

this has happened many times over here in Ireland over the last number of years.One even appeared on a forum site i was a member of using their profile as an ” advert” !

We mananged to get it blocked pronto but in the “real”world one very well known and wealthy businessman is reported to have got stung for an awfull lot of dough!!!

Beware the other one of the USD bills covered in black ink that your new friend will provide special chemicals to bring back to life!!!

Fantastic aircraft but was it every realistic to think that it could have flown and kept flying? Where was the money to keep juice in the tanks going to come from year after year?

i have great admiration for those involved and if they CAN raise the funds more power to them ! my heart goes out to you who have obviously put blood sweat and tears into something you were devoted to.

But i fear that this will turn into a series of court cases and recriminations about who did what ,who said what, who authorisied this…

Dear god …better go look for my place ….Three Capris, one hiace ,one mangled 205 , one very decrepit BMW… thanks for the info on google earth !!

Does anyone know how often Google earth is updated?? tried looking at it last week but nothing at Dunsfold that i could see….pity is Top Gear is finished now untill the autumn which means no more views of glorious prop liners!!!

sometimes repeats are the best things on. Big Brother, Love Island, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? all C-R-A-P!!!!!

Aye but not three times a day and 21 times a week !!!

Hi all,

Over the years I have seen some examples of the RR Vulture 24 cilinder X-engine. One was reasonable having been recovered from soft ground in the northern part of Holland. Ours came from the north sea and looks terrible and another one we only recovered gears and other internals from.

Are there any examples that could be restored to static condtion and possibly for a Manchester reconstruction? Something I have been wondering about for ages.

Cheers

Cees

YE GODS !!! a manchester??? now that would be something !!! Thye are extinct arnt they?

and yes the Tv progs are crap here as well….dont know why i bother with repeat tv.
oh sorry i meant Sky !!!