John, first class moderator work, thank you. These threads are now a research tool as well as a "trace of the dialogue". The search tool created by a PPRuNe'r is especially appreciated.
(John, just getting up here on the west coast of N.A. (the 'beauty sleep' didn't work here...better luck!) and I would like to supply the following links to the first thread, (although the real first one (in R&N) got shut down almost immediately and is at
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...0-missing.html. This first thread begins June 1, 2009 and ends on June 4 2009, is 952 posts long and ends at this posting,
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...ml#post4974651.)
The "first" substantive thread, (really the second due the above), is 4598 posts long and was moved to Tech Log some time back and is here:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/376433-af447.html. It begins June 4th 2009 and ends April 9th 2011.
The first post in that thread is at:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/37643...ml#post4974708
Last post in that thread is at:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/37643...ml#post6359812
For the archivists and historians among us! The thread contains some very prescient work.