Now saying less than £100k to save her and £921,480 pledged.
I can only guess that they didn’t need exactly a £1m but understand that is an easier target to market.
I take the point about only 80% of pledges get paid. Can only hope this was taken in to account. Hopefully though if there’s now enough to fly her for the year they can raise some money at the airshows.
Going back to what others have said about supporters giving a regular sum to cover the basic costs I’m going to join up. I’ve given here and there when asked but now realise that doesn’t help them plan for the future.
Looking forward to seeing her as I didn’t get to see her last year.:)

I’m registered with TPS but obviously still get the overseas US callers. Reaction depends upon whether I’m busy. A hairdryer if I am.
If I’m not I’ll deliberately try and string out the call as long as possible and ask as many questions as I can think of. Best result is 20 minutes to date by which time the guy was desperate to get away!!! Taught him personally a lesson if he wants to do that type of work and cost someone a few quid for the call.
Sometimes there is justice in the world :diablo:

Steve, Thanks for letting us know, I’ve just logged in for the first time in days. She was a true pioneer.
I ended up finding out quite a bit about her when I was trying to find the original owner of an old helmet I have. Sadly she confirmed it wasn’t hers.
I haven’t read her books yet but I will some day.
For a woman to fly in the outback in her day was truly something special never mind her other flights around the globe.
Some ladies these days think completing with men means having attitude and having it all on show. They could do with taking a lesson from Nancy. Beating the men means just going out there and doing it better.
Nancy was one of the few, and one of the first, women from the southern hemisphere and the UK who in the 1930’s acheived things most women would take another 50 years to start acheiving. She was also, I believe, the last of her generation.
RIP Nancy. Your country knows what you did. I hope the rest of the world comes to learn what you did not just for aviation but for women as well.

Don’t worry it isn’t going anywhere yet. Would you believe I’ve lived in the area for years and didn’t know it existed!
Anyway just looked up the planning application on our local councils website.
Seems they recommended refusal as they didn’t think the owners had made enough efforts to find an alternative commercial use for the site and that residential wasn’t sustainable for a variety of reasons.
In the end the owners withdrew the application at the end of the November however they were to have a meeting with the council about the site in early December. That’s all there is online at the moment.
Might be worth contacting the owners or their agent now if you want a few bits.

Merry Christmas to all.
Thanks also for making this an interesting forum for those of us that just have an interest but can’t add anything ourselves.
Many thanks also to those of you that provide the entertainment at the airshows and provide the museum exhibits for us to view all year round.

As the owner of five little tigers I can only offer this suggestion.

If you will provide the worlds largest public convienence to a cat try charging them £1 a time and you might find they go elsewhere. Keep it free and they’ll keep visiting:diablo:

Sorry to hear your news Moggy. Yep they should be dealt with positively.

Maybe I’m missing something but, why would anyone want to nick an old Toyota Carina? :confused:
Can’t say I’ve heard of many being used in bank jobs :diablo:

As Deano says, you can’t beat a turbo prop on short haul.
Long haul in the future some of this might be an option. It has fuel benefits as well as noise
http://silentaircraft.org/