Winco said "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."
I understood that Mr Walton was paid a mere £125K for the aero & all of the spares & docs; not a great deal really, considering how much he spent and forgoed over the years keeping her "alive".
He IS owed a very large sum for subsequent hangar rental, but even that is peanuts compared to what he could have earned from the space. Mr Walton is not a villain here imho. Far from it.