Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Totally expected here, I just became another dead Vulcan languishing at an airfield at the end of its flying seasons. Wrong final destination too, somewhere like Elvington where she would have been accessible and able to run for the public was a sensible location, not a commercial airport.
Ironically, the reason VTS rejected the idea of '558 going to Elvington, was because YAM couldn't offer a permanent inside home for it.........
So, no different to what they've ended up with at Doncaster then
Last accounts indicated VTS income was £2m......which is what they need to raise for the hangar..............but expenditure was £1.2m..........including £633,000 on advertising....astonishing.
At least had it gone to Elvington, there was a chance that once VTS got wound up (as it surely will eventually do sooner or later) there would have been a better chance of volunteer groups looking after it, than will be the case at Doncaster. The whole sorry situation was predicted by many, but VTS believed their own hype and BS. At least when they scrap it, it will provide decent parts for the other two live examples.