Crashman think this is the one.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1467656/60-year-mystery-of-airmens-deaths-solved-as-Mosquito-wreck-is-found.html
will have another search to see if I can find out anything else.

today Edp24 website

Vulcan bomber will keep on flying

07 March 2009 10:35

Air enthusiasts pledged nearly £500,000 in six days to keep the world’s only flying Vulcan bomber up and running, it was announced yesterday.

The Vulcan to the Sky Trust, the organisation behind the restored Cold War icon which flew at last year’s Lowestoft Air Show, said it had until yesterday to raise the £1 million needed to fund the plane’s upkeep until the air show season began in May.

At a press conference outside the XH558’s hangar, near Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, trust chairman and chief executive, Robert Pleming, said a surge of support had pushed the total pledged to £959,205.

With money fast running out, engineers working on the Vulcan at Bruntingthorpe airfield were given 28 days’ notice on February 11.

Mr Pleming said: “I am able to let you know now that the prospects of seeing the Vulcan fly again in 2009 are looking very much brighter than they were on February 11.

“This is a stunning achievement, especially when I tell you that, last Sunday morning, the total was standing at £480,000, so we have raised nearly half a million in six days.”

Mr Pleming said the trust had been stunned by the generosity, amid the current economic troubles, of its thousands of donors.

He said: “The average pledge is just under £100 – a very significant commitment at this enormously difficult time economically, one for which all who want to see the Vulcan fly are truly grateful.

“XH558 will fly because the public want it to. It truly is a ‘people’s aircraft’.’

He said the campaign for more funding would continue until the money-spinning show season, to help compensate for those cash pledges not made good.

In the long term, he said, the trust needed to change its business model to avoid any more flirtations with administration.

The RAF is “completely strapped for cash’ and cannot offer financial support, he said, but the trust hopes it can raise public funds through its use as an educational tool for schoolchildren.

Among the events held to raise funds for the plane’s upkeep was a visit by the trust to Norwich Aviation Museum, where a grounded Vulcan is on display, a fortnight ago.

Visitors gave donations and were able to quiz the crew about its history.

MJW check this out http://www.acmewhistles.co.uk/xcart/customer/home.php you ask them its J hudsons web site interesting bit about a six foot flying whistle Meteor.

Way back in the 1860s, Joseph Hudson, who was a Birmingham trained toolmaker, converted his humble washroom at St. Marks Square, which he rented for 1s. 6d. (one shilling and six pence per week) into a workshop. Here he did anything he could to supplement the family income from watch repairing to cobbling shoes. Today Acme whistles are recognized as some of the finest whistles manufactured in the world today.

I’m standing in the corner, with dunces cap on 12/20.

Duly signed. But not hopefull after reading goverments response.

Read the Government’s response
Thank you for taking the time to sign this e-petition requesting that a campaign medal be instituted for those who served in Bomber Command during World War Two.

There is widespread admiration for the major contribution that the crews of Bomber Command made to the Allied victory in World War Two and their commitment in the face of significant losses. The Government acknowledges that a large number of people share your wish to mark this with a medal.

It may be helpful, however, if I explain that there were no medals awarded purely for service in a particular Command during World War Two. Those who completed the minimum qualifying period of service in operational areas were eligible for the 1939-45 Star; those with long service in non-operational areas received the Defence Medal. In addition to the 1939-45 Star and Defence Medal, a series of Campaign stars were created for participants in particularly hazardous campaigns, and many Bomber Command personnel qualified for the much prized Aircrew Europe Star, or, for example, the France and Germany Star.

The creation of medals is the prerogative of the Sovereign. In this, the Sovereign takes advice from the Government of the day, who, in turn, are advised by the inter-departmental, non-political committee on the grant of honours, decorations and medals (known as the HD Committee), on which the Armed Forces are represented. In the case of campaign medals for service during the Second World War, the issue was discussed exhaustively by those in command at the time and by the HD Committee. If they had considered that a Bomber Command Medal, or indeed one for Coastal Command, South East Asia Command etc was appropriate, they had the opportunity to recommend the institution of such medals.

Since the end of World War Two, the HD Committee has maintained a policy that it will not consider the belated institution of awards and medals for service given many years earlier. The reason for this policy is that the present HD Committee cannot put itself in the place of the committee which made the original decision and which would have been able to take account of the views of those in the chain of command, the Government and of other interested parties at the time of that decision.

The HD Committee has made it clear on a number of occasions in response to requests for the institution of belated awards that it will not change this policy. Successive governments have found no reason to overturn this ruling, which is periodically reviewed and has been followed for over fifty years.

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11982.asp

Dont know if this is true or not. but made me smile.

Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the
other day and you’ll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him
concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws,
this reply is priceless.

This is a portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a

female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was
about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going
to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing,
archery and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised
on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don’t you admit that this is a terribly
dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper
rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you’re equipping them to become violent
killers.

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute,
but you’re not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended.