G
I hold a subtly different viewpoint on funding. Money is a finite pot of gold at a specific time - if too many people dive into the finite pot then the amounts get diluted.
Let's look at the Vulcan as an example. If so many people hadn't have sent huge amounts of cash to VTTS then would we have seen funding for Just Jane's return to flight? Or the Typhoon undergoing long term rebuild struggling for funds, or the Beaufighter that has struggled for years to find funding? Would we have seen a full set of flying repkicas for Stow Maries or the return to flight of the Vickers Vimy at Brooklands (that has also struggled for funds to sort out its Belllman Hangar).
So I object to the funding to something that has and will fail to deliver. There are so many more better projects to fund with Govt and Crowd funding - how about Reaction Engine's Sabre? Diluting our money on something that has had its day and couldn't be made to work just seems plain dumb...
LJ