Once she's finished flying in October that will be it, and the 'Howl' will be silenced, so if you have never seen a Vulcan in flight go see her this year.
When I was a kid my father took me to an air display in Townsville, Australia. A Vulcan (which was unable to land at Townsville due to the runway not being long enough) did a near 30 minute display, I iwll remember the sheer awe-inspiring noise for as long as I live, the display culminated in the Vulcan hurtling down the runway at about 20' and then pulling up near to vertical and disappearing into the cloud.
Sad to see the flying days are coming to an end, but I imagine that keeping such an aircraft flying is eye-wateringly expensive.
As an aside, these days I live in Cairns Australia, which has sadly become the resting place for the last airworthy Shorts Belfast. A heavy freight company brought the Belfast to Cairns about 15 years and then flew the wings off it carrying outsized cargo all over the Pacific rim. Around 4 years ago the company went bust and Belfast had their logo and rego painted out with white paint.
It has sat in the open at Tropical Cairns ever since. About three years ago some people arrived from a museum in England, they worked on it for a few days and ran all engines, then they packed up and left. The service ladders and ground power unit are still parked next to the aircraft. Very sad to see a great aircraft end up like that.
