Thank you all for your replies, and congratulations to all those working so hard to secure the money, well done.
Without wishing to harp on though, the thing I find astonishing is that PPrune and the key publishing site, are both visited by tens of thousands of members of the public as well as the press and goodness knows who else. Why have they both been ignored by the good Dr P? is the guy simply not man enough to come here, or is he above that sort of thing?
Maybe the good Dr airsound could enlighten us as to why Pleming continues this attitude of ignoring people at such a critical time in the projects life?