11-24-2011, 08:14
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Happy Anniversary D.B.
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11-24-2015, 04:18
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Another year goes by.....
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11-24-2015, 09:27
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Any closer to catching him. I'm not familiar with statue of limitations. Time up?
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11-24-2015, 15:58
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11-24-2015, 16:18
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Mass jump? More like a static line jump without the cord.
I've doe a mass jump (70 jumpers) off a C-141, tailgate with 5-8 guys going off the tail at the same time. By the time it got to me I was at a dead run. It literally took seconds for all of us to exit. That was a mass jump..... 
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11-24-2015, 16:28
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That's not where I left it ....
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I'm not lost! I know where I am; I just don't know where everybody else is.
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11-24-2015, 23:01
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If it was a nylon canopy, and had been subjected to sunlight over the years, it would likely have disintegrated by now. The early C9 type chutes had no UV protection. On the other hand, my first piggy-back rig had a Navy conical reserve. When I bought it, the seller showed me the packing card that showed that the reserve had just been re-packed . I put around 100 jumps on it before I sent it in for a re-pack. The rigger called me to come have a look at the reserve. The taffeta, on handling turned to powder in your hands. It was totally disintegrating in the pack.Only the lines had any integrity.This was a WW2 reserve being used in the mid seventies.
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07-13-2016, 09:30
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Blue Skies DB...
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FBI Seattle
July 12, 2016
Public Affairs Specialist Ayn Dietrich-Williams
(206) 622-0460
Following one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in our history, on July 8, 2016, the FBI redirected resources allocated to the D.B. Cooper case in order to focus on other investigative priorities. During the course of the 45-year NORJAK investigation, the FBI exhaustively reviewed all credible leads, coordinated between multiple field offices to conduct searches, collected all available evidence, and interviewed all identified witnesses. Over the years, the FBI has applied numerous new and innovative investigative techniques, as well as examined countless items at the FBI Laboratory. Evidence obtained during the course of the investigation will now be preserved for historical purposes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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FBI Press Release HERE
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07-13-2016, 11:17
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Blue Skies DB...
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Finally I'm safe!!!!!
(Ok maybe I was only 11 at the time )
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07-13-2016, 17:27
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A young Bill Otley?
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07-13-2016, 17:43
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Well the safest place he could have been hiding was behind Hoover's wardrobe. 
http://patriotupdate.com/j-edgar-hoo...l-in-new-film/
And
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/edgar-h...ry?id=14948447
Ethel Merman, who had known Hoover since 1938, knew his sexual orientation, according to Summers. In 1978 when the actress was asked to comment on Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign, Merman told the reporter, "Some of my best friends are homosexual. Everybody knew about J. Edgar Hoover, but he was the best chief the FBI ever had."
Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, confirmed that Hoover and Tolson sat in boxes owned by and used exclusively by gay men at their racing haunt Del Mar in California.
"They were nodded together as lovers," he told Summers.
Another FBI agent who had gone on fishing trips with Hoover and Tolson revealed that the director liked to "sunbathe all day in the nude." Even novelist William Styron told Summers that he once spotted Hoover and Tolson in a California beach house -- the director painting his friends toenails.
But, according to Summers, "Nobody dared say anything, he was so powerful."
The author interviewed the widow of respected Washington, D.C. psychiatrist Dr. Marshall de G. Ruffin, who treated Hoover in 1946 after his general practitioner had been "puzzled by a strange malaise in his patient."
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07-13-2016, 17:56
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Ambush Master has been MIA here for a couple of weeks now. Coincidence . . . ? 
Pat
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01-16-2017, 07:15
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D B Cooper's Tie
The legend lives on....
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Leave it to a group that calls itself the Citizen Sleuths to uncover a new lead in the 45-year hunt for D.B. Cooper.
The three amateur scientists have found rare-Earth elements on the JCPenney tie the infamous skyjacker left behind when he jumped out of a commercial airplane on a blistering night in 1971, with $200,000 in unmarked bills, a parachute, and a raincoat. The sleuths say the elements could indicate Cooper was an engineer or manager in the aerospace industry.
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Full Story here
Interesting angle... Of course someone could have picked up the tie at a secondhand store.
Everybody needs a hobby, and I'm entertained by the "ongoing investigation" by amateurs even after the FBI quit.
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01-16-2017, 10:17
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A "blistering night"?  In late November?
A Boeing employee, no doubt.
ETA: Well, he was responsible for the Cooper Vane.
Pat
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01-16-2017, 20:23
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ret10Echo
The legend lives on....
Full Story here
Interesting angle... Of course someone could have picked up the tie at a secondhand store.
Everybody needs a hobby, and I'm entertained by the "ongoing investigation" by amateurs even after the FBI quit. |
The show Expedition Unknown paid for, or facilitated, the lab test on the tie. Their D.B. Cooper episode aired a few nights ago. In it, they talk with a retired FBI agent (and 82nd ABN veteran) who believes Cooper, while lowering the stairs over Washington, actually jumped much closer to the refueling stop in Reno in what is much friendlier terrain.
http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/e...-of-d-b-cooper
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