Taxpayer’s money? Money that could go to fund kiddies playgrounds and cure cancer? Are you lot really that thick or just incredibly disingenuous?
The front page of the Vulcan to the sky website contains the words “not Government funded” rather prominently.
The only way you can argue that it’s taxpayer’s money is if you argue that the money was donated by people who pay tax. Which could be technically true but is a very long way from the common usage of the term “taxpayer’s money”.
Nor would I be so stupid to argue that the cash donated to fix up the Vulcan would go to some other “valid” cause if the project didn’t exist. We simply don’t know what the opportunity cost of the project is.
Personally, I wouldn’t give them my cash, as the standing costs alone are huge and I’m unlikely to ever go to an airshow. Equally, I don’t give enough of a toss about people funding old planes to produce reams of bilge on here.