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It's unconventional, sure, but if you're asserting that photo infers that Sam Brinton is unfit for the job, then I can't agree with you on this one. I would refer to this person as either 'Sam' or 'Mister Brinton' or 'he' and I would judge them on their job performance alone as time progresses. Beyond that; that photo should be irrelevant.

60% of recent threads started by the same resident troll. You feed 'em, they keep coming back for more.

Marty. I have United from April 1970. That’s all I have. Fly might have more. eBay has some timetables.

Well, he'll peg the weirdometer for a lot of folks, that's certain, but he's well qualified in the field and speaks a little Chinese, too, so that's good. To each his own but I wouldn't wear those shoes with that dress, no way.

Sled test shows a man in a helmet on the stairs. Timetable for NWO as of October 31, 1971. I got these from the links Flyjack shared above. Larry Carr's DZ posts are on there too in one document. Lots of good info.

This is great. Thanks for sharing the link. I'm reading through some oral histories. One discusses ticketing and says the passengers never wrote their names on the tickets, it was the airline that did that. The same guy mentions how lax security was in that as a purser he just walked from the parking lot to the plane. Makes me think how DB Cooper could have visited a 727 at a different airport if he had connections. Interesting story: I had worked for NW at the time of the DB Cooper hijacking of the NW 727. I was working that evening in the regional flight office. My boss at the time was the Chief Pilot, I believe it was Al Lee. I recall listening to the conversations between the pilot and the ground as the entire event unfolded. As I told Cherry the other day, and to this day I do not often tell the story, because most when told the story look at me with disbelief. Two weeks following the hijacking I was working in the terminal. I was approached by a guy who asked for directions to the NW flight to Honolulu. Flight 87. I took his ticket noticing three things that we were trained to be "red flags". A one way ticket, paid in cash, and no luggage to check. Also, I had seen the composite sketch of DB, and this fellow very much resembled the composite. After the fellow had left me I contacted my supervisor telling him that I thought that DB was heading toward the Honolulu flight. He seemed not too interested in what I was telling me and then asked me to go to board the flight to Alaska. Around noon time I was having lunch with the Sky Marshal who had been stationed at the Honolulu flight. I asked him if he saw the guy who looked like DB. He said that he had and that he had showed him the composite of DB and asked him if he was that guy. The guy told him, no, and the fellow was allowed to board the flight. Somewhere along the way the FBI was notified I do understand. A day passed and I was asked to meet with two FBI agents in the NW Top Flight Lounge. The agents showed me the composite what they thought Cooper looked like and asked me if that was the guy that I had met the previous day? I told them it was and then I asked them what had happened to the guy. The agents told me that FBI people had met the flight on its arrival in Honolulu but after searching the plane and passengers they concluded that he did not arrive in Honolulu. A big mystery to this day. What happened to the guy from the time that the Sky Marshal encountered him and hr boarded the flight to Honolulu? A flight that he never arrived there on. I have a few theories on it but we will never know what really happened.

A heads up for everybody.. You can still access lots of the Washington Historical Society files at the following links.. do separate searches using "Dan Cooper" and "D.B. Cooper" to get all the files https://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/collections-search/?search_term="D.B.+Cooper" https://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/collections-search/?search_term="Dan+Cooper"

Completely untrue. I have it on good authority that the average Democrat legislator has a 10 point IQ advantage on the average Republican. Fact, I saw it on Facebook.

Brent employs the old tactic of using the consequences of discrimination to justify continuing that discrimination. For example, it was long argued (especially in the former confederate states) that it would be a waste of money to provide public education to former slaves and their descendants as they were not intelligent enough to make use of that education. As "proof" they pointed to the very low literacy rate amongst those former slaves. Of course they neglected to mention that slave states had strict laws forbidding teaching slaves to read and write, so the very low literacy rate had nothing to do with intelligence. So, we are left with a couple of choices regarding Brent's post. Either he is incapable of understanding that he is perpetuating a practice that has historically excluded half the human race from being recognized as intelligent creative people fully capable of inventing useful products, or else he does understand what he is perpetuating and chooses to do so anyway. Neither option speaks well of him.