Yes! Thank you Old Engineer for your instruction and clarity about how the VS likely departed the aircraft. As with Grizzled, HN39, bearfoil, mm43, Finn47 and probably many others I, too, would love to see your detailed description. If as you say it's too large for a post on the thread, I could create a PDF file and post a link to it, if you would PM me the source.
The discourse here has sprung back to reason and reasonableness. Aaaah, relief. Only if BEA/France does NOT announce a Phase 4 search in the coming days will this thread become shrill again, if not bitter. My opinion: the CVR and FDR from AF447 are orders of magnitude more valuable to us than a few still-corked bottles of 1898 vintage Champagne lying in the Titanic's muddy debris field. Standing by...
GB