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RIP Jim. I did not know him other than by rep. Thank you for all the stories you've been posting lately. I started jumping in '81. IN '83; I went to the nationals in Muskogee since it was close to home and I was on leave. I had the pleasure of working with Jerry Bird on SCRs and in 2001, was at the WFFC working with Hutch on SCRs when we needed some more applications, so I picked up the phone and called Bill Newell. He sent them to manifest and we carried on. When I got home; I called Bill again and asked why he didn't have a website that we could just download the application and show young skydivers the criteria. He didn't know anyone that could do it, so I built the first scr-awards.com website. As I built it, we would talk and I wound up writing the prologue for "The Arvin Good Guys." which is still on the site today. At that time, I also planted the seed of considering a gorup of Vertical Skydiving Awards and he got busy. In 2003, we got him to come to SkyFest at Skydive Dallas to participate on the SCR jumps, awards, and ceremonies. He had a blast. Still have a pic of him in my office doing an SCR jump. Again, thank you for posting these wonderful stories. Keith SCR #14304, SCS #8080

I feel like we are getting punked.... the case is going backwards not forwards. Too many opinions presented as facts, not enough focus. Some recent things heard in the Vortex… Sketch A is better than B. False - Murphy Cooper had a small skinny nose. False Cooper was Caucasian not swarthy. False, can be both Cooper jumped at Orchards, the FBI confirmed it. Provably false Cossey’s NB6 parachute description is accurate. False, no corroboration and many conflicts The tie was worn at Union Carbide. Conjecture Cooper was 6’ tall, not under 5’10”. False, unknown. FBI used 5'8" as the lower bound. The TBAR money was human buried. Extremely unlikely. Cunningham’s revised flightpath times. Provably false The distributed ransom list was non-sequential. False it was re-ordered alpha-numeric Braden was Cooper. False Cooper had Skip Hall's obvious and severely wrinkled forehead. False, no witness ever mentioned it. Vordahl was Cooper. False My uncle was Cooper. False My dad was Cooper. Nonsense Cooper was a pilot. Conjecture, aviation experience but not necessarily a pilot Cooper’s initial demand was aistairs lowered on takeoff. False, initial demand was airstairs lowered inflight. The Hick's type placard was still attached to NORJAK. False, NORJAK never had that placard. It has a different one (wording). No letter's were from Cooper. Conjecture

This is getting ridiculous now..

This is why this case has become a total farce... All the time now is spent on bad theories, terrible suspects, wrong ideas and trying to correct them. Edwards, a very smart guy completely screws up Cooper's complexion,, makes completely false claims and fails to understand that White/Caucasian and swarthy/olive are NOT incompatible.. Swarthy Latin Americans were called White/Caucasian.. Edwards does NOT understand Latin American ethnicity... they descend from American Indians and Spanish... some appear very "Indian" and others very "caucasian". Swarthy means dark,, Edwards is just wrong, witnesses did say swarthy, dark and olive... latin His evidence is wrong, his assumptions about Latin American ethnicity is wrong and his conclusion is wrong. Edwards conflates the term Hispanic with Latin American.. Latin American is NOT incompatible with Caucasian. Smart people like Ryan and Edwards just keep pushing nonsense. https://medium.com/@robert.edwards_87384/d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-hijackers-ethnicity-02aeef5a25a4 100% FALSE EDWARDS "And yet, no witness described the hijacker as “swarthy” or “dark-complexioned”. This was a fiction entirely of the FBI’s devising. The majority of the witnesses, and all of those who interacted closely with the hijacker, described him as white or Caucasian." swarthy means dark, many said dark

True, it all depends if the airstairwell light was on.. there is a light switch on the interphone panel.. Cooper did use the interphone at 8:05... if that light was off the trailing pilot couldn't see.. Edwards and others are wasting time trying to move the jump south.. Soderlind got it right, it was 8:11 almost exactly. I have data to prove it and I have said for years that it could have been as far south as Battleground,, not now. People keep trying to change the evidence without any facts..

It was a bar story from another researcher, not very reliable. The chase plane pilot did not say "Flight 305 was changing course 45 degrees evert 30 seconds" that was attributed to Seattle Centre in Himmelsbach book NORJAK. This is not true, the plane did not change 45 degrees, impossible... Himmelsbach's book does have some errors.. I bet it was "4 to 5 degrees" not 45 degrees, just misunderstood.