Also strong tea, in vast quantities, over a gallon a day.

NOT those nasty Smirnoff Ice alcopops, they ARE lemonade, Smirnoff Blue label vodka, 45 or 50% ABV, depending on where it was made.

I blame BT for the amount I smoke, waiting for pages to download. No broadband around here.

A country that puts mayonnaise on chips and fruit in beer cannot be described as having great food.
What next, kippers and custard?

The logistics of moving a Vulcan by road don’t bear thinking about.

I know the RAF managed it to Hendon but I can’t believe a volunteer organisation could muster the manpower or the funds.

Overheard the landlady of my local pub the other night saying she’d just discovered Paxman on Newsnight.
That’s the sort of journalist that should be set on politicians.
I once heard him described as the BBC’s Rottweiler.
Apt, I thought.

Haven’t drunk Coke since I grew up at around 14 and discovered beer. Fortunately not addicted, just like it a lot.
Don’t like wine particularly, can only cope with German white, which shows you how much I know!
Extremely erratic consumption of Smirnoff Blue, could be a bottle in 2 weeks or none at all for 6 months. Don’t think that can count.

Do smoke, which may be fortunate as it’s supposed to stunt your growth and I’m 6’1″. Perhaps I would have been 7′.

We’re not supposed to like the French, they’re the olde enemy.
It’s those nasty Germans that caused the confusion. Untiil WW1 we’d been at war with the French on and off for ever.:)

I’ve never forgiven the powers-that-be for finishing the last ever Finningley with Patrouille de France.

Back in the Dark Ages, or more accurately, the late 60s, there was a pub a few miles SE-ish of Maidstone called “The Battle of Britain”.
It had a #*#*#* French roundel on the sign!
Almost put me off the beer I wasn’t old enough to buy.

Paul, just been feverishly looking through books to find what engine they wanted. It’s all very well being a smart-____ but I’ve got to back it up.
The Olympus did actually cause major problems with TSR2. This bit I didn’t look up but I think it was very serious resonance at certain thrust settings and difficulty in getting flight-cleared engnes.
The engine BAC wanted was the Rolls-Royce RB131, later to be developed into the Medway, or, more accurately, not.
This was the same basic engine specified for the Trident as originally designed. BEA, in one of the many ways the UK airlines worked against our aircraft industry in the 50s and 60s, said the Trident was too big. de Havilland redesigned it smaller, with Speys(?) and sold 130 odd. Boeing said that’s a good idea, made it the size de Havilland originally came up with, called it the 727 and sold 2000 or thereabouts.

Steve, there’s obviously a great deal of thought and some very clever engineering gone into hanging aircraft. I’m sure I read an article in the last few years about stresses on static aircraft caused by them not being designed to spend all their time on the undercarriage. Something about mainly air under wings, undercarriage only part of the time and forecasting future problems.
Anybody else remember any more?

Ken