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[Entwood]

Quote from the latest e-mail 

Next Thursday, the Board of Trustees will meet to discuss the viability of keeping our project alive, based on the available cash reserves and known regular monthly income.

At this moment, we are still a long way from the requested £400,000 to see us through to 2011. This gives us great cause for concern. We should now seriously consider what options are available to us if the Trust is forced into administration.

Although we can have no major influence ourselves, the strength of public opinion could well help sway the thoughts of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, who will take charge of our main asset - XH558 herself - if we get to that point.

We pose two simple questions and would ask you to think carefully before clicking on the option you would most prefer to undertake our poll:

A. Whilst she is still airworthy (ie soon), XH558 makes one final flight to a museum site in the UK and is then grounded forever. This keeps XH558 in the UK, which as a national heritage asset, and the oldest complete Vulcan in existence, is an appropriate thing to do.

B. XH558 is flown to another country - probably quite long distance away - where there is sufficient funding available to keep her flying. XH558 will be lost to the UK but will be kept flying.

There is of course, a third option that is still very much in the publics' hands.

If everyone reading this were to donate just £10, then we would raise sufficient finance to continue pushing ahead with our plans to inspire and educate the youth of today.

Our Donation Hotline will be in operation from 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 9am-12noon at weekends for the remaining days of October.

To help, simply place a call with your Debit or Credit card ready, to: 0845 5046 558 (local call rates apply).

... if she survives, she will be the last of many!

This week's Coalition Government announcement of the cancellation of Nimrod MRA4 means that XH558 has become the world's most significant representative of British aviation from the 1950s - the greatest era of British aircraft development. Now that the early retirement of the RAF's VC10s has also been announced, she will soon be the only flying example of British four-engined jet aircraft in the world.

Can you imagine air displays without anything big, noisy and British?   

We must make sure that XH558 survives and continues to fly.

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/133/82/Last-flying-Vulcan-runs-out-of-time-on-Thursday-28th.html

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It does not sound too good Entwood

Well I donated £10, but now wonder if that was worthwhile.

If the worst happens I favour it being flown to a UK museum (Duxford?) and permantly grounded if all else fails

[Entwood]

It does not sound too good Entwood

Well I donated £10, but now wonder if that was worthwhile.

If the worst happens I favour it being flown to a UK museum (Duxford?) and permantly grounded if all else fails

I understand your point, and I just wonder if that "idea" is also stopping many people donating ?? I've tried to put the concept across to friends that its a bit like buying a lottery ticket ... spend a tenner and you might win .. the prize being the continuation of the Vulcan flying in UK. If you don't buy a ticket you cannot win, so you KNOW the Vulcan will be lost.....  Daft analogy I know .. but its all this emotional idiot can think of at the moment..

[VXL V6]

Made another donation earlier in the week....

Doesn't look a good situation 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It does not sound too good Entwood

Well I donated £10, but now wonder if that was worthwhile.

If the worst happens I favour it being flown to a UK museum (Duxford?) and permantly grounded if all else fails

I understand your point, and I just wonder if that "idea" is also stopping many people donating ?? I've tried to put the concept across to friends that its a bit like buying a lottery ticket ... spend a tenner and you might win .. the prize being the continuation of the Vulcan flying in UK. If you don't buy a ticket you cannot win, so you KNOW the Vulcan will be lost.....  Daft analogy I know .. but its all this emotional idiot can think of at the moment..

Funnily enough, although I rarely do, I have bought two lottery tickets today.  The way my (bad) luck has been running this week perhaps I am due.............!!!!

Well if I won a few million I would certainly donate a million to this iconic plane

[Dishevelled Den]

This is very sad news indeed and it's a shame that the future of this magnificent aircraft is once again in jeopardy.

It would seem to me that the continual need for donated funds - in these parlous financial times - to keep the Vulcan in her natural element will eventually overwhelm the desires of this aim with harsh fiscal reality.

If sufficient funding doesn’t materialise, this tangible link to a once great engineering industry and a (at one time) formidable military force must be kept in the country of her origin - even though she will be grounded - at least this fine example will stand testament to what has gone before.

[feeutfo]

If the donation was returned if the project failed, would people donate more?

However impractical and naive an idea that may be... :-/

[Mysteryman]

This is very sad news indeed and it's a shame that the future of this magnificent aircraft is once again in jeopardy.

It would seem to me that the continual need for donated funds - in these parlous financial times - to keep the Vulcan in her natural element will eventually overwhelm the desires of this aim with harsh fiscal reality.

If sufficient funding doesn’t materialise, this tangible link to a once great engineering industry and a (at one time) formidable military force must be kept in the country of her origin - even though she will be grounded - at least this fine example will stand testament to what has gone before.

Two men from Dudley with beards would sort it out.