Tim,
Your enthusiasm is commendable, as is your energy to keep this alive, but the fact is that the project is (well almost) dead in the water.
It has failed for a number of reasons, ALL of them predictable and ALL of them forseeable even to the 'non-aviation' minded amongst us.
Bad Management is the primary cause, and that rests clearly on the shoulders of one man in particular.
Even at this late stage, there is no clear understanding or confirmation about how much is needed, and A2QFI makes a good point when he asks what happens at the end of August? Do we try to revive this project and bumble along on a month by month 'rolling goat' basis? Frankly, that is just silly and unrealistic.
'It 'aint gonna happen' Tim, certainly NOT whilst the present management and hangers-on are in the picture. Too much money has been wasted and gone astray into peoples bank accounts, and I fear that the only thing that will fly in this project, will be the smelly stuff when HM Police Force gets their teeth into it.
Let it go Tim.
TSM