Mr. Brown Had His Chance To Do One Thing Right,

but as usual he did not,

a few posts ago I mention the plight of the last flying Vulcan bomber that thrills thousands at air shows up and down the country, £500,000 was needed to keep it in the air, well readers from the Mail on Sunday raised the money in just 5 days, the Vulcan To The Sky Trust, the organisation behind the historic delta-wing jet, said the swell of support had pushed the total to almost £1million, the amount needed to maintain the jet, Robert Pleming, chairman and chief executive of the Trust, thanked The Mail on Sunday and applauded the generosity of the public, saying: ‘Never has one aircraft owed so much to so many.’ Vulcan XH558, which was built in 1960 and is now based at Bruntingthorpe airport in Leicestershire, flew for the first time in 15 years in 2007, following a £7million restoration project,

more than 130 Avro Vulcans were built in the Fifties and Sixties and they constituted the bulk of Britain’s nuclear deterrent until the introduction of Polaris submarines in 1969, there are 19 Vulcans on display in museums around the world, but XH558 is the only one that is airworthy, the ‘tin triangle’, as the bomber was nicknamed, was designed in 1948 and has been hailed as a triumph of British engineering, it is powered by four Rolls-Royce Olympus turbojet engines, has a wingspan of 111ft and a top speed of 645mph, well good job we did not relie on Gordon to do the right thing!