[Kharon]

From tiny acorns:

“K” - "And, talking of ‘making’; there is absolutely no truth in the scurrilous rumour that the lonesome five were conceived, designed, discussed, approved, funded, ordered, built, tested and stored before ‘the discovery’; none whatsoever."

Cheers “V” – and a CF. I was going to save that notion for a Sunday ramble, but you have done a fine job and saved me the work.  Those questions really do need answering.  It’s a strange situation – had there not been so much pony-pooh spread about the place; or, had Beaker not been thrust into the picture, I doubt it would have ever occurred to us to even question the things.   But once the ‘aberrations’ for which Beaker is justly infamous start, the curiosity curse kicks in; everything is suspect. It’s a hellish situation, lost lives, aircraft disappeared, millions spent and half the world screaming Bollocks.  

We should, really, be able to simply trust our own ATSB – but I struggle to do that these days.  How Hoody is ever going to sort out the credibility gap left in the Dolan wake is beyond my poor understanding.  No matter, the right questions, asked in the right place, by the right people may go some way toward a cure; but I ain’t holding my breath; no Sir.

Toot - toot.

P.S. Perhaps stuffing a GPS in the Dolan fundamental orifice, strapping him to one of his 'flip-flop-flaps' and dropping him off the back of a boat on the seventh arc, then tracking him, may provide some amusement, if not answers. Finally, he was of use to the search. What an epitaph.