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Old 30th Dec 2008, 23:47
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Tim McLelland
 
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My God you're hard work bubbles !

Okay, one more try...

It's like this - Pleming has taken (and continues to take) a huge amount of money out of the project's funds. That much is a fact. Regardless of whether you have details of precisely how much he has been paid, and when, and for what, the published figures ought to be enough to convince you that it's a hideously large sum, yes?

Okay, well do you not think that given the circumstances of the project, Pleming has a duty to explain in the fullest terms what, precisely, he does in exchange for this money? Given that he continually avoids providing an explanation, does it not seem odd to you?

Likewise, do you not think that, even given the best will in the world, the amount of money he's taken cannot possibly be justified? Surely you're not seriously suggesting that someone who has merely overseen an aircraft restoration project and done some (spectacularly unsuccessful) fund raising is actually entitled to anything approaching the amounts of money that appear to have gone his way?

I truly am astonished that so many people (and particularly the aerospace media) have failed to address this matter. It's quite amazing that when so much cyber space and print media has been devoted to endless discussion of how cash-starved the project is, nobody has stopped to ask why so much of the money raised hasn't even been spent on the Vulcan at all.
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