The HLF didn’t just chuck a load of money at them freely, it took two applications and came with strings attached.
Bubbles, please don’t keep trying to put words into my mouth.
I didn’t say that HLF chucked a load of money at them freely.
My comment was in reply to your comment about the vast majority of money being freely given by the public, to which I pointed out that the large chunk of HLF money does not fit in the ‘coverall’ category as you had described.
Also as all of us know, without that money, the project would have been a non-starter.
If people are choosing to hand money to the Vulcan rather than other aircraft then says a lot about its popularity then, like I said, nobody forces people to donate.
We already know the Vulcan was popular and again, where did I say anything to the contrary with regards to people donating?
What I did say was “but they could possibly have more sucess at actually getting some without the proverbial Vulcan ‘begging bowl’ constantly rattling everywhere”. I didn’t say will, I said “could possibly”.
Based on your logic I’ll expect a whole rash of classic aeroplanes springing up over the next few years.
Where did I indicate that my logic was that this would be the case.
Please feel free to base it on your own logic, but don’t presume it’s my logic.
My logic was that other projects “could possibly” have access to monies that they may feel they have had less of a chance of tapping into up to now.
Whether they do or do not could probably not be quantified anyway.
Marshalls didn’t carry out work for free, yes they were very nice but they were still expensive. Marshalls involvement has been a lot less the last couple of years.
And quite rightly so, but from Marshalls people I had spoken to, it was not quite the financial rewards that they were expecting.
As I also understood and i’m quite willing to be corrected on this, is it not the case that as was required by the CAA, the paid engineering staff and design authority, have always been supplied by Marshalls?
Aviation enthusiasts or not ones thing for sure, they’re Vulcan enthusiasts, despite people’s protestations the thing is that popular.
I quite agree, but following this announcement, it’s all pretty academic now anyway, so the Vulcan fanboys better make the most of it. I certainly hope to see it at least once next year and then I hope it will find a good caring home.
It has certainly been an achievement whichever way one looks at it, but it was always likely to be a relatively short life and certainly nothing like the 15 years that was the projects target at the begining.
Don’t forget this though, the yanks have nothing remotely similar flying over their side of the pond and are very unlikely to ever have something of equal standing, so this is something that they can be proud of.
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