‘Roll out £250,000, First test flight £750,000, Full test programme £500,000. Annual display season approx £1M. These are based on current estimates and Marshall Aerospace projections’.
These numbers, without a breakdown of what is being spent on what, are meaningless and I’m very surprised that Marshall’s has not ‘officially’ contributed to this thread with some explanation.
As I understand it, HLF funds are public funds. Are the spenders of these funds not legally obliged to provide the public with detailed information on their financial activities. I’ve thought for some time that certain players have been using 558 simply as a nice little earner. The longer the public is kept in the dark on these huge numbers the more convinced I become that I’m right.