Xm657 wrote:MicrolightDriver wrote:Xm657 wrote:..It's a shame that they managed to get the public to part with millions even after flying had ceased, but it was all consumed by wages and expenses, with nothing going towards the aircraft's future. If they have found a benefactor, its great news, but he/she must be the most gullible person in the world to trust these people with his/her money!!
Are we sure about those things? Nothing spent 'towards the aircraft's future'? hmm. Also, to call someone 'gullible' you presumably know the ins and outs of the proposed hangar arrangements currently subject to solicitors' activity?
Well I would love to be proven wrong MLD, I'm just saying what I see! If VTST have put money aside to guarantee 558 is safe, even if visitor numbers in the coming decades don't meet the costs of a rented hangar, then fair play to them. I can't help feel that the current model of raising cash from a charity called "Vulcan to the Sky" mainly by selling off David Walton's spare parts, sticking names to the aircraft and selling gift shop tatt, is unsustainable; and a two/three aircraft museum at a sewage farm making enough cash to pay for a return on a £3 million hangar, just seems pie in the sky.
My suggestion to the VTST is to spend less on wages (and solicitors), and buy that piece of land themselves, so if nothing else, at least 558 has a home of her own.
Can something good be salvaged from the Doncaster Airport retirement home decision? I don't know, I wish I was gullible enough to believe it could, but I fear its a very uncertain future.
OK, so suddenly less certain about the 'nothing going towards the aircraft's future', and back to the old buzzwords.
Just one question though - Is the bit about the sustainability of this tiny 'aircraft museum' just something that people write so as to deliberately misunderstand the future hangar 'offer' or do people really think that's all it's intended to be?