Vegemite or indeed Marmite is an acquired taste for most people…however Vegemite is part of the staple diet of all Aussies…they even have a Vegemite census
http://www.howdoyoulikeyourvegemite.com.au/?go=vote

Marmite is made from BEER. Real food. Vegemite sounds far too much like the stuff those weaklings eat, you know, the ones that lean towards the Sun and have bad breath.

I’ve just eaten a pack of Fig Rolls (Only 12 off) and a Blackcurrant Jam on Weetabix combo, for my pud. With a pint of Tea of course.
Main course was 4 Pork Chops, mash, brocc, leak, celery and carrots. Gravy. And now it’s time for some chocolate.

Not only is he a great and likeable science presenter, he’s also correct.

Where?
The prototype was funded as a private venture (some $16 million at the time a HUGE amount of money).
Boeing re-engineered the 367-80/KC-135 into the 707…less commonality then you’d think (different fuselage width to start).
And unlike the UK, American airlines were not semi-government controlled…each order had to be one by its own merits…plus, they had internal competition from Douglas.

And unlike what I’ve read about many UK airliners developed with government support for UK carriers, Boeing jets could not be tailored too closely for one user or route.
But Boeing did spend a lot of time and money to tailor variants for customers…like the 400 series of 707s with Rolls engines for BOAC.

I’m not saying you have to love Boeing, but give Boeing its due.:D

Boeing does deserve it’s due.
But, just because the fuse was a different diameter made no difference. What today we would call IPR was funded entirely by the DoD on the KC135. So were the test rigs, all the Bird-strikes etc. and and and.
The “Hard” tooling is only about 15% of the non-recurring cost of a project, and the DoD funded the 85%.
A great deal of the 747 research was funded by the Shuttle piggy-back idea too.

All defence co.s do this, Boeing was able to exploit it more.

As for the 146, I remember the RAF borrowing 2 for analysis in prep. for Liz2. They pushed the airframes to the limit, hot n high, slow n low, rough landings….all the testing you would expect. After the analysis, the RAF handed these tired and exhausted airframes back to Woodford with “Yes, we’ll have two of these”.
The stretched, twisted and knackered airframes were bought by Dan Air.

It’s mainly London, followed by Nottingham and Manchester. Asian Vs Black gangs are marking their “Territory” which often involves knife attacks for as much as looking at them.
They even have initiation into the gang by mugging or knifing or a rape. Nice eh.
To get in our gang at school, one had to climb to the top of a wall (18 feet high, the flat stones on the top were 2 foot 6 wide). The wall surrounded a Victorian mansion estate, it was about 0.75 miles long of unbroken wall. If you could climb up there, WITH YOUR BIKE, and cycle round there and back 1.5 miles you were in! When I did it, my starfish was like a poppy in a gale.

I was a teen in the 70’s, any of that sort of gag/knife stuff and “A division” in Manchester would kick the living daylights out of you. It really was like “Life on Mars”.
The Police had the respect, not some scum that thinks he’s hard because he’s got a knife.

Between Him and Rolf Harris they brought art to millions of us.

Yep, was an avid watcher of “Take Hart”. One of the first, if not the first programmes for the deaf too.

He set the standard for Art programmes for the kids, Art Attack and the other one (The lad that committed suicide) owe their format to Tony H. RIP.

As a child I once sent in a picture to ‘The Gallery’. It was an attempt at copying a Lautrec masterpiece, but sadly it failed to make an impression….

Get your coat!

Nice!
It’s like a different camera!

Love that engine, what is it?