I reiterate - the people running the show are not businessmen.
Mike Knight has contacts in the military: if some organiser wants the Arrows to display why not put a package together?
They get the Arrows, free, but they pay £100K for the Vulcan.
They do 20 displays per year and instant £2 Mill.
The TVOC people have to look at alternate funding sources and be creative: asking for pledges / donations is not, in the long term, a viable proposition.