Just about sums it up doesn't it, the AMERICAN Government have paid half a million towards ensuring this amzing piece of BRITISH Aviation history can keep flying.
Of course our Government and the Lottery Commission will be rushing to sign a cheque for the remainder. After all if they can spend half a billion on a riverside tent full of garbage I'm sure one and a half million is just small change.
I think I've answered my own question Blair and his trendy cronies don't like that word - history - so unless private donations can be found I'm sure they will take great delight in having this symbol of Britain's tyrannical, racist, xenophobic past scrapped.
Has anyone got an address or details of where to send donations?(The link above doesn't seem to work) If every PPRuNer donated a fiver that would be another hundred grand.
[This message has been edited by Flying Banana (edited 15 October 2000).]