Terry,
You are an educated man of a certain age so I'm sure you will get the analogy if not concede the point.
Just like Hans Christian Anderson’s Emperor, TCT has no clothes. Just like the Emperor, TCT is surrounded by ‘courtiers’ who won't tell her she is naked – although in this case more like a bunch of old duffers whose ‘heads have been turned by a shapely ankle’. And just as in the fairytale it has taken a boy in the crowd (
JS) to expose the fraud.
TCT has not the slightest vestige of any aviation expertise or accomplishment that raises her above the common herd except that the common herd don't often manage to charm their way onto 5 star junkets.
No matter how you spin it and no matter how cross you get when people make genuine mistakes, the whole crowd can now see that ‘The Emperor is Wearing no Clothes’.
Happy to recant on production of the ‘wardrobe details’