More on this saga can now be found on the appropriate thread on the UKAR site. One of their members forwarded some of our gripes to TVOC, and Felicity Irwin has now sent them (us) a reply which is on the forum thread.
I've added my response to that, so I won't take-up space by repeating it here, suffice to say that most of the relevant points are covered there.
The saga contines...
Incidentally Beagle, I'm sorry if I sound a little hostile towards Dr Pleming, but I'm ultimately more concerned with the welfare of XH558. He can either answer our questions or decline as he sees fit, but either way, I certainly don't propose to ignore him. If he wants to be the "Boss" of this project then he has to be answerable for his actions, one way or another. I've heard too many unofficial "off the record" moans about him to think that the matter should simply be overlooked - it wouldn't be doing any of us any favours and it certainly wouldn't be helping 558 to fly again.