The 787 alone has netted 261 orders and firm commitments since its launch at the end of 2003: within a few years Boeing may have won back over half the market from Airbus.

And they pulled it off: an 11-ton shipment that netted my father a half-million dollars (the money ended up in that New Mexico cooler we went searching for years later).

The Newcastle man netted twice before half-time to take his England tally to 40 and even had time to lay on a late goal for Rio Ferdinand.