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Found this interesting,,, A Portland annexation map. The Northern section of Portland with the Airport was annexed '71-'80 In 1971 Portland proper was much smaller. Take out the pinks/purple and darkest blue.

Ulis is correct,, Cooper ordered a Bourbon and Seven Up.. I think the media incorrectly used "soda".. This is a Northwest menu from a few years earlier but is probably accurate to the hijacking. You have six different Bourbon's and also Coke, 7 UP and Ginger Ale.. no "Soda" listed. In the early 70's Bourbon was the #2 hard liquor in the US.. not rare or unique. The takeaway is that Cooper may have just picked something from the menu, not that it was necessarily his preferred drink.. "no tipping please"

Gene probably misremembered the front chutes.. We were told that an experienced jumper could attach a front without D-Rings.. Cooper tied the money to his waist. IMO, most likely Cooper tossed the dummy front because it had no seal and was soft, appearing to be tampered with. Plus, no pieces were left in the plane. I still think Cameron's story is BS or greatly embellished.. he touches on the key Cooper points in the FBI description and media with zero corroboration. Cameron was a publisher, it would be great publicity.. The FBI checked out all the registrants from the time period outlined and nothing. Cameron Dec 1 and Dec 3 interviews.. Claimed spoke to man July/August 71 Saw Raleigh cigarette coupons in his possession Asked about PNW jump zones near Columbia River Jumping from jet Questions about the stairwell opening inward or rear stairwell raised or lowered Air speed and flaps Older guy Then on Dec 14 '71 Cameron walks it back.. He claims he can narrow it down to late August. He claims there was an article in Look magazine that showed a parachutist jumping from a jet and maybe the guy got the idea from that.. but he still thinks the guy looks like the artist sketch.. First, that was sketch A, the bad one.. garbage. Second, this is a classic walk back, he was BS'ing and had to cover himself.. after he had the FBI chasing his BS lead. Finally, it was obvious BS or greatly embellished.. some guy probably asked about jumping from a jet and Cameron added the stuff he thought matched Cooper. The FBI took him seriously and he had to walk it back. A classic CYA move..

Lyle Hazen Cameron was an FBI informant and was caught taking Government property,, was arrested pled guilty but due to some intervention changed it to not guilty and charges dismissed. https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/historical/lylecameron-fbi1.pdf When the Elsinore story included the Raleigh Cigarette Coupon's to get a para-commander.. and PNW jump centers it became unbelievable. I think it was made up.. seems contrived and an embellishment. I think he fabricated the story for some reason.. I could not find a para commander in the Coupon book.

DG inspected it before the Nov 26/71 document date... Cossey inspected and Packed it May 21/71 per the packing card.

yes,, FBI files say chutes were inspected by Sergeant Daniel Girolamo, Nov 26.

Here Flo says she remembers the colour of his eyes.. 17:40 but people will always say witnesses are unreliable,,, then nothing about Cooper is ever true and anyone can be Cooper.

Exactly,, you can challenge narratives but you need some evidence to back it up. There is a long list of Cooper nonsense,, The latest,, he was faking being a smoker..

Cooper wearing "loafers" just will not die.. That was a fictional description in the media... Tina actually described the Cooper's shoes as.. "brown ankle length pebble grain shoes, not tie type shoes" ankle length is not a loafer,, sounds more like some type of slip-on boot. The only "loafer" references in the FBI files is in newspaper clippings..

Soderlind,,, Based on notes while in communication with hijacked flight...

An author had done a FOIA by 1980.. Which books?? Gunther? HAHAHA? or??

Fuel truck driver said cabin was dark...

According to Tom Kaye the McCrone particle analysis isn't precise.. The particles are not necessarily alloys.. So, Ulis's claim that the particles only came from Rem Cru based on a general patent is nonsense.

On the 727 there are two cabin emergency flashlights behind the last row of seats...

727 lighting,,

With the new disastrous doc and Ulis once again playing the media fiddle there are lots of new people and with that lots of misinformation polluting the public discourse... (look at the reddit group and the Fenn group), just crazy stuff... I see this as an advantage.. there is a greater bifurcation between the serious and ridiculous. As for science,, the only thing that we need is new DNA from the tie,, is that even possible now?

Fingerprints of "no value" from ashtray.. or rear door, lav and seat area. Isn't that odd. Page -120- The Real McCoy..Eleven prints, either partials or smudged, were sent that night back to the FBI Fingerprint Division. "We photographed and lifted anything we could find," Ricks said. "We knew Flight 305 was going to get a lot of attention. At the same time we knew it was useless." Two days later, 26 November 1971, Red Campbell received a teletype from FBI headquarters, confirming their educated appraisal about the smudges: "Finger prints found on Flight 305 of no value."

Cooper bills were entered into NCIC.. none ever turned up, we forget about this.

When they landed and checked the back Tina had to turn on the lights... Makes you wonder,, did he remove his sunglasses, how dark was it, did he use the spotlights and was there any light in the stairwell for airstair controls.. Could he have had a flashlight? Even with "reading lights" on it would be dark, perhaps that is why he missed the tie..

Must have been some light,, I have no idea how the lighting worked in a 727-100 but maybe there were switched lights above the seats,, have to look into that.

Good grief,, Ulis is going down another rabbit hole,, the patent does not tie the particle only to Rem-Cru. Titanium and Antimony in those percentages is not unique to Rem-Cru.. classic Ulis exaggeration.

That means Cooper prepped to jump and left the tie with no lights in the cabin... Did he have a flashlight?

In was in his "going to Mexico" demands

Air Force pamphlet.. Can be downloaded here.. https://ia904500.us.archive.org/3/items/b3218282x/b3218282x.pdf

I have read some nutty comments on the Cooper forums over the years but that one is off the charts crazy.. Too bad Chaucer finds life so meaningless.. but the personal attacks and threats.. not cool, dude. Chaucer did make an error no matter how much he tries to weasel out of it.. his density number was 0.0544 which needs almost 200x to reach the density of water. Obviously grossly wrong, not just a different opinion but ridiculous on its face.. He also claimed the money/bag would float to TBAR.. about 10 miles or 3-4 hours float. Now, the real number is just below the density of water, which means it would float briefly until it absorbed the water and displaced the air.. a wet canvas bag full of water and wet money can get very heavy.. I would guess a few minutes maybe 5 tops, the bag is not air tight. Now, I don't believe based on my analysis of the evidence that the bag landed in or next to the River. I do have some other TBAR scenarios... two of them really good and two so-so.. but let's say it did for sake of argument, there would be no difference whether the bag sank or not for a single bundle of several packets to end up on TBAR.. Chaucer and a few others are still stuck on the idea that the three packets could have only arrived separately.. so it had to be in the container.. they reverse engineer a scenario with a false premise. However, the money went to Cooper in rubber banded bundles of packets, not individual packets. The money was in order and the FBI said it was one bundle... So, it is far more likely that the 3 packets arrived in one rubber banded bundle.. as the bands deteriorated the 3 bundles separated slightly. In this case, it doesn't matter if the bag sunk or not. You don't need the money delivered to TBAR in a container. Spring is the seasonal high water level which would be above the money find spot. Likely, the bundle gets pushed along the bottom to its spot which is effectively the River bottom at that time. I tend to believe that the rounding wear on the money was from rolling along the River bottom. A wet bundle rolling along the bottom rounding off without affecting the rubber bands.. I know that the Columbia is sandy and the Willamette is gravelly... nobody has really tested this rounding. If it was in a bag or not, if a dredge or flood played a role to put it on the beach isn't the big point... The real TBAR question is how and when did the money get into the River. If it was in a Spring from 72-79 then where was it from the night of hijacking until it entered the River? I don't think we will ever know.. unless somebody has first hand knowledge and admits it, we will only have theories.