Brian, your point on the age of the pilots is also valid but whether TVOC has plans to find some younger guys who the aircraft and train them all adds to the cost of the project.
As to the current flying practice etc, the Vulcan at typical display weight has a thrust to weight ratio of around 0.52 to 1. A 737-800 at "display weight" has a thrust to weight ration of 0.51 / 1 - pretty similar. Also unlike the Airbus the Boeing is more of a mechanical airplane and less use is made of the AT system. In short more pure handling for the crews.
With respect, I think that it would be wiser to consider pilots ( even if that involves asking them rather than waiting for them to volunteer ) in current flying practice on large aircraft rather than on light aircraft.
Nevertheless, the main thing is that the aircraft is back flying; we will have to agree to disagree on certain points, after all, we aren't making the decisions.