From parliment papers
I must be a sado - spend so many hours these days on the parliament web site! Time I found xhamster!!
Just be careful what you say to MPs over dinner!
there are yards of column inches on here for your delectation.
Does anyone know what happened to the Dr who was the MoD SME on ESM? she gave a good account of herself before the Committee. I can imagine her having been asked to retire
7 Feb 2013 : Column 184WH
Sir Gerald Howarth: I will not, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, because I feel passionately about the issue, and I want to get my comments on the record and hear what my right hon. Friend and former esteemed ministerial colleague has to say.
My right hon. Friend the Member for North East Hampshire is right: the aircraft, which was already nine years late, had not been accepted into service by the Royal Air Force. I was told, for example, that it was porpoising through the air, and that BAE was going to deal with that by installing software to make the elevator go up and down. Forgive me, but that is metal against metal. I said to the then Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Glenn Torpy, “It’s going to wear out.” He said, “You don’t need to worry, Gerald,” but I do worry, and I did at the time. I was also told, although I do not know whether it is true, that at a certain high angle of attack, the air flow into the engine intakes was disrupted, which would lead the engine to stall. There were technical problems that were not overcome.