Can anyone in the room explain to me how Boeing is not a MoD appointed design authority?
It beggars belief that somehow, the UK MoD never got the memo that Boeing, one of the premier aircraft manufacturers on the planet Earth, who (with original producer Vertol) deliverd over 1200 Chinooks to date, is somehow not worthy of being appointed by someone in the MoD as capabile of fulfilling that role. Please forgive my across the pond exasperation here, but this sort of "difficulty" strikes me as having nothing to do with substance, and all to do with illusions of form, chauvinsim, and rice bowls.
This last (referring to the AAIB report in to ZA721 in 1987) .... aligns closely with the CHART criticism 5 years later highlighting the difficulties caused by Boeing never having been an MoD-appointed Design Authority.
(If anyone can answer the question I posed to Rivetman, much obliged. If some of that question falls into "not suitable for discussion on open forums," please advise.)