Mr. Jenkins has described to you the matters between the collaborating parties. My task is to describe the problems between them and outsiders.

Because hardly any major European aerospace project lacks some form of collaboration, perhaps I may just make a few points from my own experience of this sort of business.

International collaboration has daunted many people, for rather the same reason that a lawyer like myself feels incapable of imagining how the process of a design office can ever achieve anything!

A lot of what occurs in the design office is summed up in the phrase “know-how”—I have often thought that there is no less a “know-how of collaboration”, particularly international collaboration.