olemisscub
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Colorized and enhanced the Count Coopula sketch
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CooperCon is moving permanently to Seattle starting 2023. Ulis announced it this morning. That's a wise move IMO.
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Totally random, but I asked Carr what these random initials are that you see on 302's and he said they are the initials of the secretaries/clerks who typed up the report.
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Braden became a member of the Golden Arrows in early 1960 (if my facts are right), so I'm pretty sure what I've read regarding him participating in the early HALO trials was correct.
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random trivia, but I'm pretty sure Braden was one of the "test jumpers" when they first came up with HALO.
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I’m a lefty and because we live in such a right handed world we are pretty ambidextrous. I wouldn’t want anything modified for me. I’d just learn to deal with it the way that it was designed for everyone else.
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When you say left pull do you mean that it's on the right side of your body and you pull toward the left?
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Since we got back from CooperCon I've sent Mark the 302's describing the chutes, particularly the one from 11/25/71 where Hayden's name is redacted. My money is on that one being the most accurate description we have since it was given by Hayden mere hours after he handed them over.
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I can't make Bill's name work. Spreckel is the only witness I can make fit and it fits perfectly. My only issue would be that this is coming from the Portland office, but Spreckel lived on Vashon Island. Who knows, maybe he was working out of Portland at the time or something. Regardless, Spreckel is the only name that works.
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This is what boredom will do to a man...
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what book is being referenced?
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Hmm, I'm not sure I agree with you suggesting that they didn't recognize him as different. Their psychological profile on him goes into detail about who they think he was: a manager/executive type, well educated, not a career criminal, perhaps his only crime, likely angry about what was happening in the aerospace industry at the time.
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This is precisely it. Just makes the most sense that he would bail closest to where his (probable) original transportation was i.e. near Portland. As others have said, if he didn't care where he bailed out then why not wait another 15 minutes or so and he'd have been over remarkably better terrain for which to make a parachute landing. I don't think it's a coincidence that he bailed out near where the hijacking began.
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Somewhere I read or heard that he was given 5 reserve chutes. Clearly my nomenclature on chutes isn’t what it needs to be, however, I do remember him stating that his chute hit him in the face when he opened it.
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No he wasn’t. His harness didn’t even have D-Rings.
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This is most of everything that actually has the serial numbers. It's all from Nov and Dec 71 mostly. There are plenty of parachute 302's elsewhere but it's almost always Cossey verifying whether a chute was Cooper's or not, and the veracity of his statements in those are quite sketchy. I wouldn't deem them reliable. This is a grouping of 302's that I would consider to be the most reliable statements. Parachute-302s.pdf
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Hahahaha that’s hysterical
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Devil's advocate here: He only inferred that because Cooper wasn't jibber-jabbering with the other passengers. He may have internally been very concerned. It's just like how people might say that Cooper wasn't nervous during the hijacking. What that actually means is that he wasn't outwardly nervous. He was a human being...of course he was nervous. He just did a remarkable job of hiding it.
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Where does this come from?
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and was only wearing a reserve when he jumped, which knocked him silly when it opened. His hijacking is certainly the most comical. He lands hard on his butt, lays next to a tree and sleeps for 8 hours, then wakes up and is given a ride to the local town by the literal Sheriff of that county, then stays in the same hotel with FBI agents who are hunting him. Completely bonkers. Couple all of that with the drunk who rammed his original 727 upon takeoff.
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Hahneman jacked a plane in Pennsylvania and ended up jumping in Honduras. Fly and I will probably always disagree on this, and that’s OK. I feel like he jumped out where he jumped on purpose because that’s close to where his original transportation was (presumably).
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That’s always been my take. He was just trying to say something comforting. I often think we read into these lines too much. It’s like the grudge line. It’s quite possible that “no Miss, I don’t have a grudge against your airline, I just have a grudge” was a cooler sounding and better alternative than “no Miss, I don’t have a grudge against your airline, I’m just a dirty thief.”
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Goes without saying that the deathbed confession was made up by Jo and never happened?
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Yep, both of her interviews are combined into one file on there.
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I've recreated all of the witness and crew testimonies in their unredacted format and put them all in one place. Many of the copies floating around the net look terrible and have gross watermarks, etc. norjak.org/testimony
