THINGS HAVE CHANGED - THEY MIGHT NOT BE PERFECT, BUT THEY ARE BETTER!!!!
- so was re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
- and the band played on .......... same old familiar tune
There has never been any doubt in my mind that 558 would fly; you can do anything if you throw enough money at it - you can even send men to the moon. The big, unanswered question, has always been can a flying programme be sustained over the ten year period of the project? That is the true test of the proposals, not a first flight, which was a relatively easy objective, achieved by throwing great quantities of money into the pit.
I note a friend of mine coughed up the 'six figure sum' for 558's restarted flight test programme: a toss-up between giving the money to 558 or the wife's bloody horses, eh Mike !?!