I work with several people who are ex-RAE. They reckon that the work was interesting, but the pay was not up to industry standard. They left in the late 1980's when the writiing was on the wall. I did apply but the reason that I did not follow up a career there was because I did not fancy the commute from Banbury to Thurleigh. So instead I commuted from Banbury to Luton for slightly more pay.