Originally Posted by
terry holloway
Those who speculated an award for TCT, demonstrated their complete ignorance of the Honours system, which is managed by the Honours Nomination Unit in 10 Downing Street, and no advance information is published, other than to the recipient who is asked to confirm that they will accept the award. That letter also tells them to "keep quiet" bout the award until the list is made public. It also raises a question mark over their professed knowledge of other TCT matters which THEY have published on this thread
Everything that has been posted to unmask the charade can be backed-up. There is much more known than has been published but that is personal stuff (personal to TCT), I am only interested in the facts relating to undeserved awards.
UK Awards process.
Anyone can nominate someone for an award and the nomination goes to the Cabinet Office. Specifically the Honours and Appointments Secretariat on Horse Guards Road.
Whether someone gets an honour - and the honour they get - is decided by an honours committee who will submit their decision to the PM who then submits it to Her Majesty. The Honours committee will conduct very detailed background checks on the potential recipient to make sure that people who have been nominated for honours have not behaved in a way that might harm the honours system. The most basic of checks would be to see what is out in the public domain already : GOOGLE "Tracey Curtis-Taylor" and see what they would have seen.
The person making the nomination will receive a swift acknowledgement from the Honours Committee but it may be 12-18 months before any further action surfaces. Recipients are made aware of the award well in advance but are asked to keep it to themselves. During this long "dormant" period it is not unusual for the odd pending award coming to light.
We are happy to answer any questions from TCT and we can show factual sources to support what we have posted. TCT can take some time to answer the questions highlighted below. That she is not in the UK is not a valid reason for ignoring them...
-What is the reconciliation between Ms Curtis-Taylor's well documented claim to have flown her african flight "solo" (Please see the video clip published earlier in this thread in which she personally makes that claim) and her subsequent public statement that the flight was not solo?
-Given the above, what was she doing in the picture of her published earlier in this thread standing in front of a huge picture claiming she had been "Alone in an open cock-pit [sic] plane"?
-By what authority, and with what qualification, does she wear RAF wings?
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In addition I would like answers to the following
- When exactly did the sponsorship requests begin?
- What did the investors THINK they were getting?
- When was it decided that these would not be a solo flights?
- Why was the solo aspect dropped?
- Were the sponsors informed of this material change?
- If so, when?
- Why was it felt necessary that the front seat would be occupied for the vast majority of the journey by Ewald?
- What steps did TCT take to correct the many SOLO headlines?
- Where is the evidence to show this even happened?
- Why, many months after the return to the UK, was TCT perpetuating the SOLO claim?
As for folk on the NY list that I know...work it out. Ex RAF, worked at several fast-jet and training establishments. One mate flies around in a bright red jet, the other was in almost all recruiting posters of the 90's - and not for his piloting skills. (Although he was, and still is, a highly skilled operator).