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The Menendez trial is continuing. Real sleaze so corruption is not limited to republicans.Just more proof that trump lies about a weaponized justice system. Just feeds the ignorant mind.

Interesting enough, the FBI also had two different USAF Navigators calculate the descent rate and landing zone. Their names and comments have been posted on this thread. And oddly enough, the USAF Navigators were not asked to determine the flight path of the airliner. And they may not have even had access to the flight path information. Weird things happened in relation to the descent rate and flight path information used in the FBI investigation. Actually, the descent rate for the jumper and parachute were common knowledge. The flight path could easily be determined from information held by the Seattle Air Traffic Control Center. But that would be doing it the easy way.

As direct contractors, we knew not to offer. Even when we had coffee and donuts, we always had a "contributions jar," so that payment was at least possible. And I never had a doubt about the honest and desire for a successful and safe space program as the top priority for anyone I dealt with. Wendy P.

Yes, she got into it while dating Jim Hancock. Interestingly, Jim would eventually be the one at NWA who calculated Cooper’s descent for the DZ. She ended up getting a pilot’s license too.

All power corrupts, absolute power....

If that’s your interpretation of my lack of desire to debate your interpretation of NOAA papers, I’ll try to restrain my tears.

Silly Brent, Trix are for trolls

Sure, it's all speculation... I have speculated that he may have asked for two sets so that they wouldn't tamper with them for fear that he might make someone else jump with him. I agree that there would be no reason for him to actually do that, but my thought is that just introducing the possibility that he might, might make it less likely that they would tamper with them. I'm not sure about that. Those chutes are pretty basic. Whoever stretched it out to inspect it, any cut/missing lines would be readily apparent. As for how many lines he cut, how long is that, would he have enough or run out...? My thought is that he cut what he needed. If he had needed more, he would have just cut more?

Hi folks, Orange melon => convicted felon. I just like the sound of that. Jerry Baumchen

Do property assessments base don highest and best use, which will generally increase property taxes for gas stations in urban environments and you solve that problem.

from Tom's original site: Five cords on the pink parachute had cut lines: Line #7 had 186 ¾ inches of cord removed Line #11 had 169 ¾ inches of cord removed Line #12 had 169 inches of cord removed Line #15 had 213 inches of cord removed Line #22 had 217 ¼ inches of cord removed The length of an uncut cord (including the double-sewn cord used to tie into the cross-connector, the bundle of cords located between the butterfly snap-hook rings in the reserve container) is 218 inches (or 18.2 feet). Exactly how much suspension line is currently missing from the pink parachute? 955 ¾ inches (or 79.6 feet). Exactly how much suspension line did D.B. Cooper use to wrap the bundle of money to his waist? If the investigative search of the plane was conducted a mere 24 minutes after the plane touched down in Reno, NV and the number of cut cords recorded by the search team at that time was two, it suggests that Cooper removed two shroud lines (suspension lines) from the pink parachute. Logically, it seems as though the hijacker would grab two cords at the same time and make only one cut, rather than choosing lines individually and cutting them separately. Lines #11 and #12 seem the most plausible two, being a mere ¼ inch difference in length and located next to each other on the canopy. If D.B. Cooper took these two lines, he took a total of 338 ¾ inches (28.2 feet) of cord with him. If he doubled-up the cords for extra security during the jump, he used 169 ¾ inches (or 14.1 feet) of cord. Two cords vs. Three cords Whether two cords or three cords were cut remains a debate. Tina Mucklow asked the hijacker during the flight to cut some of the chute cord for her to possibly use as a safety line when the aft stairs were lowered, so as to not be sucked out of the plane [2]. Mucklow stated that Cooper informed her that she didn't need a cord. Was an additional cord cut from the chute at the time for Mucklow, but never used? This research was conducted by Carol Abraczinskas, University of Chicago.