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By: 5th January 2018 at 20:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It does read as in any other sense of gaining funds through deception, ie. Gaining them for specific tasks by donations and spending them elsewhere and reading it, it appears on themselves.... A true example of a self licking lollipop.
They appear to jump on any bandwagon to self promote themselves, gain revenue, With a load of false / fantastical promises then move on.
By: 5th January 2018 at 20:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-So that is where that crass Maid Of Harlech name came from
By: 5th January 2018 at 21:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Just as I read it, my opinion from that.
By: 5th January 2018 at 21:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Confirms what many already knew or suspected. It would appear from Fowler's statements that many activities would be classed as unlawful or illegal.
By: 6th January 2018 at 00:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Tom Delonge,the drummer for the Band "Blink 182" is doing the same with UFO,s..
https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/
By: 6th January 2018 at 08:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A very intereting read. You have to wonder though, how as he go away with it for so long ?
By: 6th January 2018 at 09:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It's like bad restaurants in tourist locations: plenty of new customers and no repeat business. In this case I think the new customers are snared by a constant drip-feed of 'new' projects.
By: 6th January 2018 at 11:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-and yet a Lincolnshire farmer has been ripped to bits for doing the same thing but putting his own money up, hats off to him
By: 6th January 2018 at 11:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That's quite a conceptual leap to link those two.
Moggy
By: 6th January 2018 at 12:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not really Moggs just pointing out a man went looking for missing aeroplanes without begging for handouts and actually doing it, thats the link or maybe im an idiot
(answers on a post card to)
By: 6th January 2018 at 12:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Why would you be an idiot?
I think the defining difference is that one is a conman and one just very gullible
By: 6th January 2018 at 13:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Possibly in a way that was my point, the man with his hands in his pocket gets out there the other just pockets.
and my main point was all the flack he took doing his own thing with his own money not someone elses hard earned.
By: 6th January 2018 at 13:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think we'll leave that as the last word?
Moggy
By: 6th January 2018 at 17:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Tom Delonge,the drummer for the Band "Blink 182" is doing the same with UFO,s..
https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/
Alas Tom is the guitarist, rather than the drummer, of Blink 182. The mistake is understandable though, as his bizarre fascination with UFOs and conspiracy theories puts him safely into drummer territory. :applause:
Even in my very limited experience, being in a band is boring. You spend 3% of your time playing music, and the rest of the time is either spent plotting your business strategy or twiddling your thumbs waiting for things to happen (and drummers to turn up). Quite what unique insight into 'Engineering space-time' or 'Beamed energy launch systems' Delonge gained from sitting around waiting to soundcheck is beyond me.
As for TIGGER, they've done very well for achieving nothing.
By: 6th January 2018 at 17:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Ex-guitarist of Blink ;)
By: 6th January 2018 at 18:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-So that is where that crass Maid Of Harlech name came from
Actually not. The people of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Harlech coined the name Maid of Harlech. Gillespie claimed it as if he had named it.
By: 6th January 2018 at 20:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Hi All,
scam
/skam/
noun
informal
noun: scam; plural noun: scams
1. a dishonest scheme; a fraud."an insurance scam"
synonyms: fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, racket, trick, diddle; More
informalcon, con trick, flimflam, gyp, kite;
informalramp, twist; nformalhustle, grift, shakedown, bunco, boondoggle; informalrort "the scam involved a series of bogus reinsurance deals"
verb
verb: scam; 3rd person present: scams; past tense: scammed; past participle: scammed; gerund or present participle: scamming
1. swindle."a guy that scams old pensioners out of their savings"
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Fraud/frɔːd/
noun
noun: fraud; plural noun: frauds
wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain."he was convicted of fraud"
synonyms: fraudulence, sharp practice, cheating, swindling, trickery, artifice, deceit, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, treachery, chicanery, skulduggery, imposture, embezzlement; also:- informalmonkey business, funny business, crookedness, hanky-panky, shenanigans, flimflam;
informaljiggery-pokery; informalmonkeyshines; archaicmanagement - knavery - "his business partner was arrested for fraud"
•deception, trick, cheat, hoax, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, ruse, artifice, swindle, racket;
informalscam, con, con trick, rip-off, leg-pull, sting, gyp, kite, diddle, fiddle, swizzle;
informalbunco, boondoggle, hustle, grift; informalrort - "they were accomplices in a fraud"
•a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.
"mediums exposed as tricksters and frauds"
synonyms: impostor, fake, sham, pretender, hoodwinker, masquerader, charlatan, quack, mountebank; More
The above rings bells just like the bloke who realised to late what was ALLEGDLY really happening, Well meant misguided if flawed activities at best, at worst Fraudulent could be alleged some would say, reading that report of the activities makes for very sad reading indeed......:(
Just saying!
Geoff.
By: 6th January 2018 at 20:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I must admit that I joined Tigar in 1984 as they played up Le Oiseau Blanc search, but after the years membership expired I had seen the light and never renewed.
By: 6th January 2018 at 20:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I have been told by someone more familiar with the group than myself, that according to tax records, the group has taken in about $11 million over the years. (If someone has better information, I'm willing to be corrected.)
Aside from the pity that the group has never recovering a complete aircraft, or even project, let alone finding AE, think what aircraft that money could have saved.
There are many groups that could have really put that kind of funding to use.
By: 6th January 2018 at 23:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I echo those sentiments J Boyle.
Think of what could have been funded by that money.
I think R.G. operates under the guise that there is a sucker born every minute.
Andy
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By: J Boyle - 5th January 2018 at 19:35
For the past few decades, TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) has called itself a group dedicated to the recovery of historic aircraft, but is best known for its focus on finding Amelia Earhart. More recently, it took up the cause of a P-38 buried on a UK beach, where it remains...despite the group's well publicized taking on the project and raising funds for it. Likewise, it involved itself with the possible recovery of TBD torpedo bombers from the Pacific (also unsuccessful) and the recovery of a B-17E from a New Guinea swamp (the aircraft was eventually recovered by another group seemingly without any TIGHAR help). More recently, the group announced an effort to try to find the plane famous USAAF bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared in.
In short, after about 30 years and raising millions of dollars as a tax free charity, they haven't recovered a airframe or found what they have looked for.
Here, Monte Fowler, a 18 year ex-member and substantial donor gives a concise overview of the group. While not a fan of the group, his comments are balanced and objective. Particularly interesting are his comments on the salary and estate paid to the group's founder (and sole employee) and the group's seeming intolerance of any criticism.
Interesting reading..
http://myplace.frontier.com/~monty.fowler/tighar_analysis.htm
If nothing else, it takes a big man to admit he gave a group a lot of money without much to show for it.