According to the Catering Manager at RAF Brize Norton, rations will cease on Sept 01 2012 for flights of less than 5 hours.
I seem to recall that 4:35 was always the minimum auth'd time for a Vulcan flight in the late '70s - the idea being that when :15 taxying at each end was included, it totalled 5:05 and was therefore just sufficient for a pre-flight feeder meal. Plus a Mars bar for the AEO's daughter.
Are they planning to build an Aircrew Feeder at Brize.....?? 'elf 'n safety or some other bluntness of the nanny-society stopped squadron tea bars flogging rat pies, so what other option will there now be?