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Foley's folly & the fabulous, five, flapping, flaperons -  

Given the rather bemused look on Peter Foley's face in the pic I thought it was time for an Aunty Pru caption competition.

I'll kick it off... "Where's the other 495 of them?" 

But seriously do the they expect us to believe that they have only just now come up with this idea when it was mentioned at least a year ago in the CSIRO blog after the discovery of the flaperon on Reunion Is.

Quote from David off JW blog:

David
Posted August 21, 2016 at 3:23 AM
 
@MH. “I read somewhere either here or elsewhere that the Flaperon debris if sourced from 7th arc should have arrived on Reunion and nearby islands almost an year earlier than they did.”

One assessment that arrival at about the time it did indicated it came from the arc between 32deg and 39deg is at:

http://www.marine.csiro.au/~griffin/MH370/

See 8 Sep 2015, ‘Results’. Related, note para 4, ” The flaperon finding is therefore too late as well as too far south to be consistent with a crash site north of the present sea-floor search region.”

@Ge Rijn. About the time to prepare the dummy flaperons you mentioned, suggest you go also to 8 Sep 2015, ‘Introduction’ and click on, ‘5 August news item’ (a CSIRO blog). Go to comments and you will find a suggestion by Graeme Harrison on the 5th and 7th August 2015 to release dummy flaperons with transmitters, to be done in in March 2016. So the idea is not new and in retrospect it is a shame it was not followed up earlier, if it seen to have merit now. Possibly confidence in the search suggested it was not a priority at the time.

 
That Graeme Harrison comment on the 5th of August 2015 was I believe acknowledged by Dr David Griffin:

David says
 
7th August 2015 at 11:41 am

I find this fascinating (and saddening of course on a human level) but your ‘sail effect’ tests would be very interesting and not something that I would have thought of. As for tests with flaperons, wouldn’t that need to be done at a similar season/date to the disappearance?

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Okay so presumably this is where the idea was germinated, so why was it not possible to meet the 2nd anniversary date to drop these 5 (WTF?) flaperon replicas in the SIO??

&.. Why 5; and where do they intend to drop the 5? 

P2 comment: Feel free to contribute to the QON because it will be our intention that these and other MH370 questions will be asked in the next round of Senate Estimates due in October.  

MTF...P2

Ps Willyleaks incoming: Rumour is that the five flaperon replicas were actually produced prior to the discovery of the MH370 flaperon on Reunion island??