All very sad and sounds like a badly run business.
I popped up to Cottesmore when they were doing some of the test flights last year. There must have been over a thousand people there, but none of the TVOC staff (Numbering over 15 according to the BBC) could be seen on our side of the fence.
This was the perfect opportunity to raise some funds, just about everyone there would have given them a tenner, they did not even set up they merchandising stall in the main spotters car park.
There seems in my view to have been a lot of basing in the limelight and appeal after appeal for easy money rather than getting stuck in and getting the money in by hand.
Anyway Rant over. I've pledged another chunk of dosh to them, if they can survive this year then maybe there is a future, but the way its run does need to chance.
TVOC have done a fantastic job getting her back in the air, but this is a business to be run where hard decisions need to be made and sometimes sentiments get in the way.