The yanks were so jealous.

According to my father, TSR-2 was cancelled following a phone call to Harold Wilson from Joseph Stalin.

Yes, I know.

They sold us duff blood.

Arther Ashe, a former Wimbledon Men's Champion, died of it, too. In the USA, though.

Nothing to be jealous about given what bombers the US has that leave it for dead.

That's mainly a business interest thing.

"Two months later the assembly line, tooling, plans, existing airframes, and engines were ordered to be destroyed."

"This action effectively put Avro out of business and its highly skilled engineering and production personnel scattered"

They like to smash down potential competition for aircraft sales by their partners.

Today, that sort of thing is enforced by "software compatibility" and "unified force" reasons. A foreign fighter would be "no good" if it did not work with their C&C. That was presumably a factor in the last negotiation for fighters here.

If they're jealous of anything right now, it's their opponents hypersonic missiles. No matter how well they work.

Paul

It didn't stop the americans using the all terrain radar and moving map display for their cruise missiles.

Not in 1962

Wrong. The B52 left it for dead.

No, the NHS bought pooled, dried Factor VIII because it was, at the time a miraculous therapy for (mostly boy) haemophiliacs, allowing them take part in the rough and tumble of life.

The 13 regional UK Blood transfusion centres simply could not produce their own. They relied on cryoprecipitate, and this had to be administered in hospital.

Remember, this was the 1970's when Hepatitis C and HIV not only did not exist, but wasn't even on the radar. In the 1970's Britain was the sick man of Europe, with 25% annual inflation for 5 solid years and half the country out on strike or prevented from working by flying secondary pickets.

Barely a week went by without the 6PM news showing all the trades union leaders marching into 10 downing st to tell Sunny Jim Callaghan how to run the country. They made sure that their members never went short, and the NHS and nationalised water supply/sewage treatment works were run on a shoestring. QED blame the unions as well as the 'system'

My first job was a junior Lab Technician at the Welsh Regional Blood Transfusion Service at Rhydlafr near Cardiff. They were still collecting about 10% of donations using glass bottles with rubber giving and taking sets. All these were washed out, sterilized and re-used. This was

I find it difficult to believe that Andy Burnham did not know that USA dried factor VIII was infecting so many people in the UK. There were articles about this in the papers when New Labour were in power.

Remember when he was Health Secretary the incidence of hospital acquired infections soared because of New Labours obsession with targets and getting people in and out of hospital more quickly.

It would have been cheaper to let them bleed to death.