To re-build the RAE you would need Scientists, Engineers and Leaders. QQ could
offer Nest-Featherers, Project Managers, Accountants and possibly just a few of
those who formerly worked at the RAE. Unfortunately, working within QQ has
beaten the stuffing out of those former RAE folk.
Never a truer word was said! The (QinetiQ) announcement that redundancies were on the way; in order that this would make us a leaner, fitter, and more efficient machine, simply wasn't true. All it did was stir the good folk into searching for alternative aerospace employment i.e. Airbus Military; amongst others!
The Haddon-Cave report was a right and just document that highlighted the QinetiQ oversight of Nimrod airworthiness issues. Nonetheless, something had to be done to cull the methodology of the airworthiness chain; except that all we have subsequently done is increase "process"; which has, more or less, gone full circle i.e. the airworthiness chain has, once again, become complex and convoluted. Are we any safer? No. But we sure have built the "Mother of all Audit Trails" that will "nail" anyone who manages to crawl through the legislation minefield. Haddon-Cave wanted to simplify "process"... QinetiQ has totally missed the point!
