Very surprising that PPrune allows Tim's constant personal bashing of an award-winning member of the preservation movement to go on like this. It's so blatantly a personal grudge - Tim has been asked repeatedly to back up his mumblings about financial cloak and daggery, but always weasels out of doing so.
In Tim's world, raising 7 million quid is 'spectacularly unsuccessful fund raising'.
That, on its own, says it all I think.
Happy new year to all at Brunters - I look forward to another year of airshow appearances from an aircraft Tim would like to see exported to another country.