A salutary tale Bergerie1, In October 1940 expat Brits living in Argentina formed The Fellowship of the Bellows (bellows create and air force) to collect money for Beaverbrooks Spitfire fund. that they did so with an element of humour detracts not one whit from what they achieved, their motto was funds through fun ultimately 63000 Argentines were fully committed, the tariff of donations was quite rigid. First donation you became a wiff,, then a puff, puffs became gusts then breezes. It got complicated when you reached hurricane force, after all they were raising funds for Spitfires! RAF museum records show 10 million Argentine pesos rattled into our coffers
The fellowship spread rapidly through South America with Brazil to the fore.
Maybe we should rethink the scheme crowd funded F35B anyone?