Re: Valiant question
As one of the pilots involved, I was halfway through the captains course when the spar cracked, I joined many other Valiant refugees at Little Rissie on the CFS course. The courses were much larger than usual and the FTS's ended up a little overloaded with QFI's for a bit. As far as I was concerned it was a blessing since, having been a Tanker co-pilot, the thought of a tour on a bomber squadron, QRA and all, did not exactly excite. CFS managed to cope pretty well with these large courses although the runway at Rissie was closed about that time for resurfacing and we boltholed to Kemble.
I know some of the aircrew went to Vulcans and some remained at Marham with the Victors who then became the new Tanker Force. There were probably around 120 aircrew out of a job when the Valiant was scrapped.