What a coincidence! I am tre-reading First Light after a very long interval and have just reached Geoff Wellum’s final cross country exercise when he missed Netheravon in poor visibility and landed at Upavon. As it turned out most APOs made the same mistake in training!

That’s intriguing and just so that I understand your good news. Under certain circumstances the tax payer ( that’s nearly all of us ) pays a percentage of compensation to a bankrupt’s creditors?

I don’t think it was on the mudflats was it? I think it made a “gentle” crash landing on the grassy marshes and remained well exposed despite some slight sinkage into the marshy grass. If it had crashed on the mudflats it would have been swallowed into the mud and then been covered by the incoming tide, leaving little for immediate recovery.

Maybe, but it certainly won’t stop the debate which has been raging for decades…………;) And in any case they were, together with the Hurricane, the three aircraft involved in fighting each other during the Summer of 1940. So, different or not, they were tasked to fight each other so comparisons are inevitable.

Isn’t the problem that unlike many other charities the Vulcan needs periodic large shots in the arm to avoid cessation. Other charities continue to support whom or whatever it is with greater or lesser funding.

Unless you genuinely do not want to see her fly anymore it seems sad to withhold your cash because you disagree with the methods. Although it is, of course, your right to choose. I too have shelled out rather a lot but will continue to help, in a smaller way than before as funds are tighter these days, in the hope she might make it through at least another season or two. But I am not optimistic, I have to say.

I wouldn’t disagree with that – not dissimilar to the “hard sell” in normal trading. One instinctively turns away from that approach.

TwinOtter –

IMHO the fairest assessment would be to say that some charities raise some income from donations!

Very fair, indeed.:)