The Vulcan has NOT been grounded by the recession. It has been grounded by greed. The recession might not have helped things I accept, but the countless tens or hundreds of thousands of people who have given their bloody-hard-earned money to this project will be thoroughly disgusted to find that a huge amount of it has gone to pay Pleming and another huge amount has gone to pay Walton.
Where have you read who's been paid and how much? I'd be very interested to read it.