LOL
Good point
Curtis had been with the project for up to 15 years. He is one of the cofounders, and AFAIK the only cofounder left in the community. He owns infrastructure such as the Forum, and does not shake to use his ownership for private means, or by request of friends.
Official Project: No idea what it really means. There is only one Flightgear project as far as I know.
The aircrafts, they say the only "Official" aircraft are hosted in FGAddon. They don't really care about any other aircraft. Besides, they discourage the users freedoms of modify and/or redistribute -- which opposes the GPL license all of those aircrafts are released on. Since FGMEMBERs does both, they ban us from all their infrastructure (as to prevent us to invite, collaborate, and share with people)
https://github.com/FGMEMBERShttp://wiki.flightgear.org/FGMEMBERS==> the article explaining how to use FGMEMBERS together with FGDATA; purely a technical help article has been also blocked and banned!IH-COL