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Old 12th Feb 2009, 20:35
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While maintenace was the resaon for scraping the Vulcan display flight, it was the crippling cost of a major for an individual aircraft at, IIRC, £1m that sealed its fate.

I was also an increasing diversion of resources at Waddo as the E3 was working up. Had it not been grounded when it was it would have been grounded a few years ago as main bases close and base loading increases.

There is propably no room at Coningsby so there would be no question of a single flight base.
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