I originally expressed enthusiasm for going full court press on 2-3-V-2 because I believe that if it did come from Amelia's Electra, it could be a diagnostic artifact.
The problem in this case was that your premise was invalid. 2-3-V-2 never had the potential for being a diagnostic artifact.
Nonetheless, I think the re-examination you prompted had value.
I
strongly disagree that 2-3-V-2 has no potential to be a diagnostic artifact, i.e., it has to be from our Lockheed Electra. It has an apparently unique curvature, in a known thickness, and that could have been tied directly to Amelia and Fred's Electra - IF there was paperwork stating that the windows in her aircraft were replaced with 1/8-inch thick Plexiglas, as opposed to something else, that would match 2-3-V-2 as it currently exists.
But there isn't, and all the photos in the world aren't going move 2-3-V-2 any further down that road, despite my fondest and most enthusiastic hopes, because the utility of using one-dimensional photographs is limited when trying to analyze three-dimensional objects.
Which is disappointing, and to me 2-2-V-1 is looking more and more like it will fall into that category as well, again despite my fondest and most enthusiastic hopes. All the photos in the world (some of which I helped find) aren't going to move it any further down the proof road either, unless multiple, independent, public and replicable analyses are completed and they keep coming out the same way. But it sure would be nice if we could find some paperwork to go along with it, bureaucrat that I am.
LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 EC