(08-23-2016, 11:19 PM)ventus45 Wrote: Foley's "Flip-Flop-Flap" Flotilla
(think "slip-slop-slap")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap
Sunscreen Protection = Protection against UV(A) and UV(B)
Flotilla Protection = Protection against Unhelpful French ?
Definitely pay that one "V"


Short interlude from caption comp, just caught the latest from the JACC???
DOI Update: The plot thickens -

Quote:Drift modelling study
In July 2015 wreckage from an aircraft was found on La Réunion in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. As La Réunion is French Territory, the wreckage was taken into custody by French judicial authorities who transported it to France where it was examined.
On 3 September 2015 French authorities confirmed that the wreckage was a wing part from a Boeing 777, known as a flaperon. Furthermore, unique identifiers on the flaperon identified it as definitely coming from MH370.
Over the last nine months there has been a range of debris found along western Indian Ocean shorelines that has been linked to MH370. The flaperon is, however, particularly important as it was the first piece of debris to be found and therefore it spent the least amount of time adrift.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been working with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation over the past 18 months to model the drift of MH370 debris. Over the coming months a further intensive study will be undertaken.
Phase one involves setting adrift ocean drifter buoys used in the Global Drifter Program along with models of the flaperon which have been fitted with satellite trackers. The models will be tracked to establish the rate and direction of drift relative to the drifter buoys in open ocean conditions when subject to similar winds, currents and waves. Thirty years of real life Global Drifter Program data will then be used to model the drift of the flaperon.
On its own this information will not be able to identify the precise location of the aircraft. It is hoped, however, that when added to our existing knowledge and any future learnings a specific location of the aircraft will be able to be identified.
Umm...so does that mean they will be dropping Foley's fabulous, flaperon, flip-flop-flap flotilla soon? Or is it still scheduled for March 2017? Either way I still question why it has taken this long to develop this strategy, we could all now be analysing at least 5 months of drifter tracking info?
Hmm...and that part in bold, isn't that exactly what Mike Chillit is currently doing?? - UDB!

MTF...P2
