Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator
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 also seem to recall the reason of the imminent withdrawl of the Victor's and therefore the last remnents of the V-Force and it's infrastructure within the RAF as another reason why the VDF couldn't continue even if the major had been done.