i'm just an ordinary member of the public.
i have no involvement with the Vulcan in any capacity.
i have donated my hard earned cash over the years to help get it flying again and keep it flying.
i never saw it fly last year as my few trips to see it were affected by weather and its no shows.
i dearly would love to see it keep flying in the UK.
the problem is that as an ordinary member of the public, the only information i get is second hand rumour etc.
i'm sure that SM is correct in that changes are being made but i don't see them. All i see is the same face saying we need 1.2 million for this year.
Do you need 1.2 million or do you want 1.2 million.
what do you really need. and to do what.
show us the figures for the coming years projection.
proper figures, not just 4 big numbers that add up to 1.2 million.
the business model must be fundamentally flawed in my humble outsiders view.
the only accounts we can see are 2007, 2008 being overdue.
hangarage costs should be about £6 per square foot with a T2 costing about £40K per year plus rates.
as an outsider all we see is a business lurching from one crisis to another with no obvious plan for a sustainable future.
i am reluctant to put my hand into my pocket continuously untill i know what my money is going to be spent on.
is it a business or is it a charity.
if the trust is a charity ( airframe owners ), then the operations that are contracted to TVOC ( a business ) should be offered for tender.
The whole structure seems wrong to me from a sustainability point of view.
just my outsiders view.
Geoff