Having had, and continuing to have, the pleasure of working with one of the Vulcan aircrew for some years now I have become an avid watcher of 558's restoration programme, so much so that I was lucky enough to be at Bruntingthorpe last year for it's first flight following restoration. I knew with as much advance notice as this type of activity presents that the aircraft would be flying this week and scanned the BBC News broadcasts for images. Nothing what so ever where I live, thought it did make the 07.00 radio 2 news. Why oh why can't good news stories such as this get the airing they deserve across national TV?
I do though fear that this will turn out to be very British in it's outcome, whereby it fails at the final hurdle by not securing sufficient sponsorship. Many people will mutter "Well it was a good idea and at least we tried......shame though" and then realise it'll be too late to try again.