Weekend Cinema - 617 The Very Last Vulcan Flight
By: Everyone in the world (excepting 17 souls scattered around the planet) has seen most of the films (pre-vid days) about Britain's nuclear bombers ad nauseum but here's the very last time the Vulcan was fired up and sent out on a scheduled mission. Tradition dictated the crew were served a Full Engerlish (bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried egg, tomato's with mushrooms and hash brownies available if wanted!) As the Ground Crew prepared the planes the men talked about this mission to end it all for when they returned back to the airfield (RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire) they were to turn off the engines for the last time and to return the keys to the Guardhouse. Their role was now obsolete, Submarine based Nuclear Missile carriers had taken over their role. The airbase was the same base from where the Lancaster Bombers known as the Dam Busters took off from all those years ago..
Epilogue: the Gov in all it's wisdom decided they no longer needed this airbase and didn't know what to do with it... they tried housing the illegal-entry migrants there but the local population complained bitterly...they said they did not want hundreds of 'Dental Technicians', 'Architects', Scientists', 'Engineers', 'Computer Code writers' and other professional people right on their doorstep... (or somat like that)
Credit: I got this from anglosaxonwarlord' about 11 years ago.