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  1. 377
    True... and soooo frustrating. Somewhere is a much larger piece of evidence: Coopers rig. Unless it is underwater it is likely to be found someday. He had no reason to hike it out if he landed alive. All he'd want to do is hide it from searchers while he walked out. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    The Cooper Vane rotates to a door blocking position with high speed airflow. When a plane is taxying or stationary, gravity rotates it and it does not block the ventral door/stairs from deploying outward. When I jumped the DC 9-21 at WFFC 2006 it had a working Cooper Vane but since the stairs were removed it served no blocking function even at flight speeds. Nothing extended outward to bloc k. Were you on an old time real DC 9 or an MD 80 or later variant? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    As far as I can tell nobody has made any serious money on Cooper stories. Movies, books and TV shows have all been duds commercially speaking. It looks like Cooper himself didn't even "line his pockets" but rather lined the Columbia River. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    You may be right G. How do you get the power to Earth? Tether cable, microwave beam? I can see skydivers/base jumpers scheming about climbing tethers. I must be missing something in the Cooper Cold Fusion analogy. Norjack to me is simply a whodunnit. Cold fusion is a whatizzit. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Is that true? Has neutron emission from the Pons Fleischman type cells been positively verified? I havent followed cold fusion. I am more interested in chemtrails and voices from the grave, you know, that Coast to Coast AM stuff. The inventor of electrically scanned television, Philo Farnsworth thought he had invented a practical fusion power source called the FUSOR and even patented it. Turns out it DOES produce neutron emission and they are built today for research work, but they don't give a net power gain. Cooper isn't like cold fusion. Cooper is more like Jack the Ripper, but a far less vicious criminal. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    I do admit that the impressive stats imply your life under canopy has been, well dull/boring is certainly inappropiate, but lets say "uneventful". Good on you for such exemplary safety Quade, but you help preserve the dangerous public perception that skydiving is safe. I feel obligated to let the public know the truth so I and most other long term jumpers do a cutaway every few decades. 3000 jumps and no reserve rides, hmmm, you may be a damned good packer and have perfect body position on deployment every time, or... you land some scary shit sometimes. The numbers don't always tell the whole story. Have you ever landed something marginal? How about personal drama? No malfuntions cutaways there either? The term "skydiver" encompasses more than just your jumps. I think you need to change your footnote to something which more accurately describes your situation. Boring remains unproven. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    We haven't solved the crime, but we've found some interesting relevant info (eg pre Norjack 727 jumps by Air America) and some interesting qualified Cooper candidates (Ted Braden) and have fun kicking ideas around. True, we can't put anyone in the plane, but every unsolved crime looks like this until it "breaks". It's highly unlikely that this forum will solve Norjack, but it's fun to try. You claim to be the "world's most boring skydiver". I'm tired of unsubstantiated claims. Prove it. Until then it's just boasting. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Nice job Georger! Keep em coming. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Geroger, Where did you find that poster? I think the milk carton ads might work even better. Jo, how about posting your contentions about what was going on in the WA camps during WW 2? Why be so secretive? Galen's book is long overdue, I wonder what he is waiting for? I'll buy a copy no matter what. I also want to buy an autographed copy of Sheridan Peterson's book but so far he has not responded with purchase info. Despite Jo's suspicions, I am not writing a book, screenplay or anything else. It's just good fun, nothing more. Is Tom still working on Norjack? What about the pollen evidence on the tie? Is he pursuing that? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    That sure would suck and isn't out of the question. One of the world's very best skydivers (who was a rigger) accidently stitched his rig shut and died jumping it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_de_Gayardon It is pretty easy to interfere with an opening when you start tieing stuff to a rig. Even if he didn't doom the opening by things he did in the cabin, the wild tumble and windstream on exit could take some loose line and wrap it on something like a pack opening band hook. On the DC 9 WFFC jet jumps all sorts of things that normally stayed on jumpers were loosened or lost, like goggles, a fanny pack, etc. There is quite a blast on exit when you are going 150 mph or better. The energy goes up as the square of velocity, it isnt linear. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    To "riggers"

    377 replied to 377's topic in Gear and Rigging

    Good one Airtwardo Maybe we should give our riggers an hour with Jasmine instead of a bottle of their favorite liquor when we pull silver and have a good ride. They should get a good ride too huh? Mixing hookers and skydiving has caused problems in the past. Remember that Twin Beech jumpship from Yolo CA that crashed at that Nevada "ranch"? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    If he washed down the Columbia and out to sea the crabs would pick his bones clean, but the gear might remain reasonably intact. Drag boats (bottom trawlers) drag up all sorts of stuff. See below. http://www.bandonwesternworld.com/articles/2010/02/18/news/doc4b7c76d6d2460772945759.txt 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    That mean old FAA always kills the good deals. There used to be a Beech 18 that flew to the Taft DZ from Van Nuys on weekends long long ago. You could pay to ride there, jump in and fly back on Sunday. Two takeoffs, one landing in the plane. It was dirt cheap and saved a lot of driving. The FAA reportedly shut it down as an unlicensed passenger operation. Killjoys. It is amazing that the Convair stayed intact with no pax injuries when that selfish jerk blew up himself and the lav. They built em TOUGH back then, supposedly because they didnt have computer programs that would tell them the absolute minimum structure needed to avoid metal fatigue in a pressurized hull. They had to err on the safe side. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    I read all your posts Georger. I cant say I remember them all but I do read them. I just misunderstood what was being said about the SNs and had forgotten the old dialog about the issue. It is that simpe. Nobody was being ignored. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    farflung wrote: Farflung, Given that a lot of Mile High qualifications are done in airliner lavs, shouldnt you have some doppler heart rate sensor looking for two distinct accelerating heartbeats or accelerometers looking for characteristic cyclic motion or some way to avoid blasting an amourous couple into a very embarrassing tandem jump? Safety and Calvinism sometimes intersect, but not always. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    OK, I misinterpretted. Thanks for the courteous correction. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Damn right you are a SKYDIVER. That is just amazing that you are solo jumping again Jarret. Those photos are so inspiring. You know what they say: "You cant keep a good man down." You've proved it. I am not joking when I say I expect to see some RW photos sometime in the future with you doing the docking. I don't know how, but I bet you will figure a way. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    If it's true then it would be surprising that such a small sample of bills would have several unrecorded SNs. Orange can probably run some stats on this issue. Something is way off here. Did Cooper get more twenties than the FBI thought? How many unique SNs were recorded? Extrapolating from Tena Bar sample size and number of unrecorded SNs in that small sample, what is likely number of unrecorded twenties that Cooper got in the whole batch? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Jo, Some of those older smoke jumpers might take a liking to a woman cohort who knows about parachutes. You may become the Belle of the Smoke Jumpers Reunion Ball. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Here is the smokejumper reunion info Jo. http://www.google.com/search?q=smoke+jumper+reunion+redding&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari 378 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    I think Orbital Sciences uses an L 1011 in California to launch rockets from high altitudes. I am surprised nobody has converted one into a fire tanker like the DC 10 and 747s tankers. L 1011s with some decent engine times and remaining time to C check are dirt cheap. Maybe there is concern about mfr support and spares in the future. Can you tell I like airplanes? I flew on TWA 1011s a lot in the 1980s and really liked them. They could get into A foggy Heathrow when other planes had to wait for better visibility. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Bet quite a few mile high club qualifications have been made on that Sands TriStar. I hardly ever see L 1011s flying any more. ATA was using them on charters not too long ago. I used to work for a big avionics company and got quite a few cockpit jumpseat rides in 1011s. On one trip from the middle east to the UK the crew was getting repeated reports from the FAs that pax in thecrear were getting sick from a continuous up and down motion. The Capt said "it's the weather hon, chop reported at all available altitudes, nothing we can do about it." The FE told me it was really a rigging problem resulting in autopilot pitch hunting, but that they didn't want to hand fly for five hours. Pretty amazing plane systems wise. Triple redundant autopilots with a voting system. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    OK, I've set it up so someone else can have post 666. How's that for playing nice? Do unto others etc. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    DB Cooper in the Rose Parade http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_leDUrlCrBik/Si3k1A_5WsI/AAAAAAAAE-8/PU7L_mRYXTo/s1600-h/IMG_5228.JPG 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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    Some of the 20 dollar bills found at Tena bar did not match the list of SNs recorded by the FBI: http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=5253 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.