Orange1

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  1. Well, you have no proof that Mel Wilson was not Cooper and the FBI cannot explain what happened to him after his disappearance. By your own logic, then, Mel Wilson must have been Cooper. And every time you bring up this stupid argument I will post this counter-argument. Maybe it will eventually sink in as to how ridiculous your reasoning is. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  2. ?? I already answered you above and told you what I think... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  3. Don't put words in my mouth - when you quoted what I actually said earlier! My opinion has been stated before and it is a binary outcome. If Cooper had experience, particularly paratrooper experience, I think there's a very good chance he survived. If he was a whuffo, I think there's a good chance he went in. Your trying to come up with firm conclusions is ludicrous. There just isn't enough information to be able to definitively state anything about what happened after he jumped. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  4. The second part of 9, and 10 are just unknown. You cannot state with any certainty that they either happened or did not happen. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  5. You also do not know what training Cooper had. Your leap from not being able to figure out where Duane was during that time to him being Cooper is just laughable. For all you know he was in prison under yet another alias that you haven't figured out yet. You continue to insist that people need to prove what Duane was doing when, as though that has any relevance to this case at all. And yet you cannot see why people call you delusional.... Let me put it this way: if anyone else came to this thread making the same claims, based on the same "evidence", about someone else as you do about Duane you would shoot them down in flames. With good reason. In fact, let's turn your own argument around. Why don't you prove what happened to Mel Wilson after he disappeared? If you can't do that then you can't prove he wasn't Cooper. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  6. Well, it would be interesting to see what the survival rate of pilots bailing out was then. Particularly those who bailed at night. Any ideas? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  7. Oh, that pretty much describes me too took me 12 freaking exits (from a sitting poised position) before they'd let me go to freefall... progression normally 3 exits then 5 DRPs, I did 6 of each . I surprised myself by actually being pretty good at freefall just about from the word go. Landings were another story altogether... btw everyone loved the spin test jump, I think for most of us it was one of our favorites! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  8. Yeah but those guys had training on what to do if they needed to eject. We have no clue what Cooper's jump background was. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  9. There's a difference between pulling in a spin and pulling while tumbling though. None of us have any idea whether he spun or tumbled on exit. And if he had no experience of training, who knows whether it would have occurred to him to pull while spinning or tumbling? Out of interest, 377, when in your training did you get taught how to stop a spin without pulling? It was part of the requirement for my A, but (no offence) I did my training quite a while after you did yours! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  10. Usually... but panicked first-timers sometimes don't open chutes (even panicked people of varying levels of experience don't always open them). Plus... if you are tumbling when you pull there is the added risk of a horseshoe. I don't know how many people have survived a horseshoe at night (especially with no reserve around...) For non-skydivers: Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  11. You never made a jump in your life, have you? In fact, by that statement I'd wager a guess you've never seen how typical first timers react to free fall. And I can damn near guarantee you've never made a free fall jump at night. You have NO idea what you're talking about in this regard. None. "Measures which probably help in stabilisation? (sic)" Don't make me laugh! INSTINCT don't enter into it. Humans have NO instinct about free fall. None. They have instinct about falling from a height of a few feet, but any way a normal human might react to that situation has ZERO relevance to falling out of an airplane. None. Because of this, inexperienced jumpers have a tendency to curl up into the fetal position and fall unstable. Virtually everything they try to do instinctively is 100% wrong. Somewhere in a skydiving history thing I remember reading about, I think it was some french skydivers, that actually "figured out" how to be stable in freefall (and which laid the basis for what we are taught today) and this was decades after people started jumping from planes. Quade is right, there is no instinct. I'll see if I can find the source/story. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  12. Personally, I think we waste enough time with our in-thread feuds already and don't need to be dragged into yet another one between Blevins and someone who hasn't even posted here. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  13. Well, they make for good movie plots sometimes. fyi: Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  14. My (old) club had a first timer on SL do a perfect (necessary) reserve deployment this past weekend
  15. I admit to having a quick look at your first link. What's the difference between his slurs and the childish insultingly captioned pictures you printed? Honestly, between you and Bruce.... Let's just say I'm glad I know some other journalists, or my opinion of the profession would be at an all-time low right now. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  16. And you think anyone here might be interested in this because ....??? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  17. Really? Yes, because cover-up is the only other option left to those who refuse to accept FBI rejection of their pet suspects... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  18. What are you talking about? The guy was Canadian and, at least in this thread, that's all the proof you need Would be interesting to see if people who had seen him between the hijacking and disappearance mentioned anything unusual about his behavior. Tom, your sleuth have anything on this? The guy seems as good a suspect as any other on the face of it...any relevant history? Of course, missing plane loaded with cash, either making it or wrecked and found by others....both good movie plots at least. Both been done already haven't they?! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  19. You miss the point entirely. There is a difference between hoping not to disturb someone and going out of your way to do it. And yes I do think you should leave Tina alone. You have no basis for your opinion that she is "rageful" - other than the perfectly understandable slamming door in your face, which many people would have done, and even of you did do you honestly expect anyone to believe you are motivated by some altruistic desire to heal her? Your attempts at self-justification have lowered rather than raised my opinion of you (yes, I realise you don't give a shit what I think of you). They ring exceedingly false, but I guess you have to keep up with this to justify what you do. For the record: I am actually friends with a couple of journalists, including one who does a lot of investigative reporting. He is aggressive when he thinks the circumstances warrant, but these are people who chose to be in the public eye or otherwise do demand investigating (pyramid schemes posing as investment trusts for example). And he has never resorted to publishing tabloid photos. At this point I'm not sure whether I feel or more scorn or pity for you. If you actually believe what you posted, your self-delusion rivals someone else on this thread Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  20. Fair enough, but the "expose" was not revealing such as far as I could see. As for the names...correct me if I'm wrong, but Jo is using Weber (at least here) despite having subsequently married someone else. So the principle is the same. And anyway yes, if you are entitled to use a surname, why not? Not sure what US law is, but here a woman is entitled to use any married name she has had before, even if divorced/widowed, remarried and used another name since. It actually made headlines with a certain woman who married a number of times but insisted on using her second husband's surname - a well known businessman who took her to court to try get her to stop. He lost the case. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  21. It was low class and did not even NEED to be revealed to the public. Agree with the above. While the background of a potential Cooper would certainly be open to scrutiny, this is not the case for the "informant" ( for lack of a better word). Jo/Duane is a good example: Duane's past misdeeds/actions are open to scrutiny. Jo's (if there were any, which I do not think so) should be off-limits. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  22. ...interesting way you are choosing to do it... most people who look at themselves that way don't choose to hurt others on their path. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  23. That's your excuse for invading the privacy of someone who has made it clear they want to be left alone? Someone who never went looking for "fame"? Shame on you. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  24. Bruce, some of your work has been interesting. But, at least for me, your "rules of conduct" will forever be tainted by the tabloid article, complete with paparazzi photos, that you published on Tina. A colleague of mine is fond of saying that reputation is like virginity: you can guard it for years, but once it's broken, it's gone forever. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  25. Really? Including that he is responsible for the conspiracy theories you did not have? Never mind all the other clearly bullsh*t claims you have made about him... On another topic, I'm surprised you haven't yet asked Marla if LD and Duane were in cahoots about making their fingerprints disappear/change Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.