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Brilliant Farflung. Curtis Lemay would really like that crew. Spot promotions all around. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Even today radio equipped bees are searching for Cooper. His scent has been extracted from the tie and replicated using analysers, synthesizers etc. This story below is just a cover for funding the technology. You know how it goes with classified programs Georger. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100527013222.htm Black helicopters are so yesterday. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I have been so focused I was never aware that another Hijacking occured at Sea Tac - are you sure of this? Or is this just another story to create more confusion? Here is what our banished colleague found: here's a hijack at Seatac in 1980 where an airport employee was "stripped to the waist" for the money delivery. It was Northwest Airlines full article: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q5IlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OPMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3505,450106&dq=hijacker+1980+stripped+to+the+waist&hl=en "An airport employee, stripped to the waist at the hijacker's request, had boarded a truck and delivered the parachute late yesterday. Afterward, another employee delivered a suitcase with $100,000 to the plane. In both cases, one of the two remaining pilots came to the plane's front door to receive the package. The hijacker finally asked for a rental car with an automatic transmission and a citizens band radio. When negotiators, who said they were trying to stall, said they could not find a car with a radio, the hijacker said he would settle for "a fast car"" 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

How did you deal with carrying the cowboy hat and your flight helmet? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

A more accurate account is found in Snows old post which came from court records: 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

foregoing was taken from a Piedmont Airlines history website. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

NWA 727s did not have UHF AM radios, just VHF AM. F106s just had UHF AM. ATC had both. Some larger military transport acft have VHF and UHF AM comm radios. No domestic civil airliners carried UHF AM comm radios in 71. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

A VERY common misconception. Furuno even makes a special BIRD RADAR for tuna boats. Birds reflect X band pulses pretty well but S band even better. It is the density difference between air and a target that causes a radar relection within the Earth's atmosphere. Lots of skydivers are full of hot air and other denser substances, but they still make good radar targets. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Farflung wrote: Me too. Funny thing, I hooked up an old rotary dial phone a few months back and the system still supports roatry dialing!!! That MUST be some proof of a government telco conspiracy.... advance knowledge that a catastrophic EMP event will fry every PN jucntion in the US taking phones, radios and the Internet down for the count. We'll be back to make and break dialing and carbon microphones. The racks of telco electromech stepper relays and crossbar switches must have been scrapped, so somwhere there are backup ESS switches heavily shielded. BTW Lockheed never gave EEStor any money, just signed some agreements. Still, mega stupid and it gave considerable credibility to EEStor. I have a very nicely produced book on Japanese experiments that were basically trying to create the electrical version of perpetual motion machines using toroidal inductors that could tap some sort of universal energy field, something Shirley McClain knows all about. It's chock full of calculus, waveforms and photos of beautifully wound Mobius coil transformers. The book also has verbiage giving credence to reports of late WW2 Nazi U Boats having similar devices to provide inexhaustable electrical power for submerged travel running on their electric propulsion motors. Maddof had it simpler, just promise impossibly high returns and generate phony statements to "prove" it. He skipped the whole capacitor story and went directly to the wallet. The real Cooper may be very disappointing to all of us. when his identity and background is revealed. He has been made into Superman. Who else can leap from a flying airliner and disappear? Is this how religion starts? Where is Snow when such monumental questions are raised? Quade must be in cahoots with Satan. That "boring skydiver" stuff is just a cover. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

No Georger. I am not writing a book and I am not speculating about SAGE display capabilities. Don't be so quick on the flame trigger. I had extended technical correspondence with two engineers who worked on the SAGE system at McChord and even got system diagrams etc. Aircraft targets were displayed as processed persistent blips on a data display CRT, unlike raw radar data presented on a PPI circular scan CRT that is refreshed once each antenna revolution. An area around the blip was used to present alphanumeric tag info and was cleared so that a close-in Cooper exit target would not have been displayed. We chatted a lot about whether Cooper's exit would have showed up on the SAGE display and the consensus was that it would not because of the processing, noise flitering and clear area for the data block to be displayed immediately adjacent to an aircraft target. http://ed-thelen.org/SageIntro.html SAGE didnt want to display birds or skydivers, just aircraft and so it was designed that way. I and Guru have spoken at length to ATC professionals and have had identical reports about ATC radar being able to paint freefalling jumpers at long distances. I believe Guru even had them tell him how many jumpers just exited his jumpship. I know a controller who is a pilot and a skydiver. He told me he has seen jumpers on ATC radar many times at distances exceeding 40 miles. I was speculating about the loss of the raw radar tapes, but it was based on the fact that nobody has been able to produce them or at least not publically. We have a good idea of the flight path, but Coopers exact exit point is a mystery that the raw radar tapes would probably have solved. Rambling? Hey, its not against the rules and I've seen you do it once in a while too. It's an idling mode when no real data processing is going on. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Priceless indeed. Hey, Kleiner, Perkin or Doerr could drive a Segway cross country with no recharges with one of these caps. My thermodynamics professor spent two days taking us through famous frauds: perpetual motion machines, non nuke energy sources with impossibly high E densities, all the old hydrolysis tricks (burning water as fuel) etc. In the end he said there is no free lunch and that you don't need to be physicist to spot the swindles. He said a classic sign is claim of persecution or suppression, a GIANT leap in claimed efficency over current state of the art and failure to publically demonstrate claimed results with a credible indepedent entity making the measurements. What does this tech stuff have to do with DBC? Not much, but it is relavent from a psych standpoint. People who want miracles when presented with a fork in the evidence path that could go either way, take the yellow brick road. Me? I shave with Occam's razor and believe in the conservation of energy. It's the only law that wasnt influenced by lobbyists. Could technology help solve Norjack? Hard to say, because we dont really know very much about what was found on the money, in the plane and on the tie. I do wish they had saved the raw radar tapes from the SAGE system at McChord from that night. Who knows what we might have been able to extract from them today. We do know that the processed SAGE data display would have blocked a Cooper exit echo on the screen, but I bet it was in the raw signal. Guru and I both know that jumper echos show up really well on ATC radar at surprisingly long distances. At times ATC guys could accurately count the number of jumpers in freefall by carefully examing their screens. We might have even been able to tell if Cooper opened the chute by a rapid change in forward velocity. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I like the Roswell stuff, but $279 for ONE 0.47 microfarad 600 VDC capacitor? OMG. Does gullibility know no limits? I'll put my cheap two dollar Sprague Orange Drop caps up against these kilobuck Holy Grail caps in a double blind A-B test where they are used in the same amp and toggled with a DPDT switch. I'll bet the difference is inaudible. I don't doubt Dr. Marcel's honesty or integrity, he is just wrong in his memory of what actually happened. There were no alien bodies. I'd LOVE to believe we've been visited by ETs, but it just has not happened regardless of how many honest people think they have witnessed such visitations. I don't doubt Jo's honesty either, but her honesty doesn't mean her conclusions and memories are accurate. Every Cooper book, TV special, etc is good for solving the case even if it's wrong factually because it will stir things up and reach more people. Someday someone may recall something odd about someone they knew that links them to Norjack. Bring on the Blevins, Cooks, Todaws and Webers. It's all good. Hey Amazon. Byron Boogie is Oct 15-17. You gonna be there? I'm jumping there on the 16th. Jim Wilson (holds Canadian record for most jumps in a day, 200) will be there flying Pink Floyd, one of two experimental 11 cell canopies made by PD to do cross country flying with a freefall deployable chute. It is pink of course and looks more like a paraglider than a skydive canopy. Thanks for the correction on the Tighar Amelia E relic island. That group is a great example of confirmation bias. When one piece of riveted aluminum they found didn't match the rivet spacing on a Lockheed Electra they noted that AE's plane had suffered a mishap before the epic flight and therefore this piece was likely from a repair patch. It's like that piece of unidentified hardware that Jo sold at a garage sale. It HAD to be from a parachute. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Great post Farflung. I love that group (Tigahr?) that links every bit of trash found on or near Howland Island with AE. An old shoe? Amelia's! An old piece of aluminum? From her Electra! A bone fragment? Hers. I hear rumors that some serious money is funding high tech sonar mapping in some AE probable ditching areas. It's a needle in a haystack but you never know. I do think her plane will be found, just a matter of time. I wish the USN would look. They have amazing deep sea acoustic imaging capability. I wonder if unsolved bank robberies have increased in the Seattle area since Ckret left? Probably. I know he is itching to post the info which confirms this hunch, but sadly Jo has made that impossible. Hi Ckret! I wish you could post your review of DORKZONE, thre Youtube video. I know you got a chuckle. Jerry, you ought to come back and say hello once in a while. Fall salmon should be running up your stream now to spawn. Catch any? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tree-rescue-system-Paraglider-paragliding-paramotor-PPG_W0QQitemZ190433167695QQcategoryZ91561QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5194143590346495789 An earlier version is carried in mil ejection survival packages. Much longer descent line in the military version. Bet Amazon has used something like this. A smoke jumper surely would carry something similar if jumping into the woods. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I should have said about 5 or 10 thousand feet above ground level. Another good but obscure book all about Japanese attacks on the US West Coast during WW2: Silent Siege, lots of tech detail about the Fouga ballons and also about sub carried seaplane attack aircraft. http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Siege-III-Civilians-Documentary/dp/0936738731 Most balloons were made of doped paper. Some were assembled as class projects by school children. Some "scout" balloons had HF telemetry with a vacuum tube transmitter! The Fougas (incindiary balloons) had an ingenious system for automatically releasing sand ballast to maintain altitude. The balloons were supposed to set the Pacific NW forests ablaze but the only time the trans Pacific winds really favored the operation was winter when the forests were too wet to ignite and support a sustained burn. The program was a huge failure as a weapon. Some UFO debunkers thought the Roswell alien was a mummified Japanese midget found long after the war. Their theory was that the Japanese experimented with manned balloons to insert spies and saboteurs onto the US mainland. Small pilots would be chosen to minimize payload. Roswell crash debris was consistent with a balloon and it turned out it (according to the USAF) was a cold war balloon project carrying an instrument payload to monitor atomic tests, Project Mogul. The alien story appears to be urban myth. So does the Duane as a Ranger trained jumper story. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo wrote: Really? You didn't read the part about the white errand boy jock carrier? Just kidding Jo. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Not Carr... rather Snow. http://www.lanewsmonitor.com/news/FBI-Busts-International-Cyber-Crime-Network--Arrest-90-in-US-1286052454/ 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

This interesting true historical account has paratroopers, smoke jumpers, uranium slugs and balloon bombs. Did Duane ever use the term triple nickle? http://www.thedropzone.org/training/smokejmp.html 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Georger wrote: Some folks in the "other" party think we already did that G. He won, but not by as much as your dog did. I can't say I am happy with his treatment of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. I dont think Eric Holder is putting a lot of resources on Norjack either. Maybe Ckret can get that straightened out now that he is in DC. Bet he is working on it as I write. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://jonathanturley.org/2008/04/01/parachute-evidence-confirms-ron-paul-is-db-cooper-paul-vows-to-continue-race/ 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

That video is so damned good, I see something new every time I watch it. It is a masterpiece. I don't know who authored it. Farflung and Snow were on my lits of usual suspects, but I have no proof or admissions. The FBI has teams of SAs posting as pre teen Lolitas trying to snag online pedophiles. Maybe things were slow on the pervert troll and Ckret assigned them to do a novel Norjack "evidence" summary using Youtube. The FBI is trying very hard to stay abreast of all this social network stuff. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Wolf River Joe wrote: Soooo true, see attached. We have our pencil packs and the operators of these old freighters have their pencil OHs, resulting in the so called "Miami Yellow Tag" indicating that an item is flight ready. A guy I knew was FE on an old DC 6 that was being ferried across country a few years back. All 4 props were shown as recently OHd in the logs. A few hours out of Miami one prop ran away, way above redline RPM and no pitch control, very scary. Luckily they made an emergency landing before it started throwing blades. On further inspection it was pretty clear that the OHs were pencil not mechanical. One argument as to why an experienced skydiver might have picked the bailout rig over the sport rig: You might want to deploy right off the steps rather than risk a tumbling exit at night. In a 727, even with some flaps and gear down, you could be flying at an airspeed above the rated specs on most sport canopies (150 mph). A C9 surplus chute can take it for sure. You might blow out some panels in a sport canopy. In this photo The FAA plane cops are making the rounds, probably suspicious of the paperwork on this old freight dog ATL 98 Carvair. It was a blast jumping from this unique plane at WFFC 2005. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I think that's exactly what they did for Sheridan. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

They needn't worry. Nobody makes any serious money off of Cooper. Not even Cooper himself. And DZOs never made any serious money off of anything related to skydiving. The only thing saving them from abject poverty is tandems and that wasn't going on in 71. My first jump cost $50 and that included 5 evenings of instruction. We are downright cruel to DZOs grinding them so hard on pricing. In my area licensed jumpers can go to 13,500 for a measly $17 in a million dollar turbine jumpship. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Funny thing is that Pete doesn't seem to lie about or spin his background. His early skydiving achievements have been confirmed as has his smoke jumper credentials. I have little doubt about his job claims. Seems to be a straight shooter. You rarely see a man with such impressive "tough guy" credentials be so left leaning, anti govt and such a pacifist. Bruce, if you establish contact I'll buy Pete a jump. Probably have to be tandem given his age and that no DZ has round canopy rental gear. I don't think he has flown squares. I'll buy him some good Bourbon too, something from Jo's old hood in KY. Pete is one of the O.G.s of skydiving. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.