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  1. You seem to be suggesting that we can rule out Cooper being an "aviator" and possibly being a "bluesman". I have seen plenty of bluesmen wearing wrap-around dark colored glasses, but I wouldn't call them sunglasses since they usually only wore them on stage during performances in near pitch-dark clubs.
  2. Olemiss, there was nothing unusual about the type of sunglasses that aviator's used from WW2 through 1971. They all had metal frames and various tints with emphasis being on "true color" tints. There was nothing exceptional about their prices either. I have been wearing "aviator sunglasses" longer than I can remember, wore them yesterday, and will be wearing them again today if the sun is shinning when I go outside. So please don't start claiming that Cooper had some exceptional or exotic sunglasses. That is nonsense.
  3. I'm older than everyone. The most experienced skydiver I knew in the early 1960s held a B rating with about 200 jumps.
  4. Sixty years ago, we only had access to surplus WW2 equipment. I always made certain that both reserve snaps were properly closed when I jumped. Nevertheless, one of the snaps would probably come open on about half of the jumps. Some jumpers would drill a small hole in the snaps and insert a pin to make sure the snap couldn't come open. This happened before modern equipment designed for skydiving was developed. Even the Para Commanders were in the future.
  5. Here is a true story related to the above. My skydiving instructor in the early 1960s, who was also a rigger, wanted to jump his chest reserve and didn't have a backpack that he could pack as a legal reserve (this couldn't be done with our modified backpacks). So he decided to jump with his usual skydiver rig and just open the reserve rather than the backpack. When he opened his chest reserve one of the snaps came unfastened and he couldn't get it refastened. Fortunately, there was/is a strong web between the two snaps, and he made it down with no problems. His rigger's logbook contains my signature for a ride down on what may have been the same reserve that he used that day.
  6. FlyJack, you say that you have the data I am talking about. So just exactly what do you disagree with in that data? Again, that data DOES NOT support your claims. You need to get the FAA publications I have been telling you about for years and read them so you have at least some idea of what is going on here.
  7. FlyJack, the data I refer to is already online here, as you presumably know, and most of it has been here for about the last 15 years. On the balloon data, just exactly how far from its launch site do you think it was when it reached 10,000 feet? And exactly where do you get the idea that the wind at 10,000 feet was from the S or SE?
  8. FlyJack, I know you will continue to deny this, but all records show that the wind direction at 10,000 feet, both measured and forecast, was from the southwest (225 degrees true) during the evening of the hijack. And the airliner was at 10,000 feet. The ground winds don't mean anything since the airliner wasn't on the ground. I would suggest that the Weather Underground site might be a better source for the ground weather since it uses the government weather data.
  9. FlyJack, Your post above was sent over the ARINC teletype system about 75 minutes before the airliner took off. After giving in to Rataczak, Cooper told Tina that he knew that the airliner could take off with the aft stairs down despite Rataczak's claims otherwise.
  10. FlyJack, Cooper wanted the aft stairs down during the takeoff. This and his argument with Rataczak are covered in numerous places.
  11. FlyJack, Your calculations are nonsense. Even the numbers you quote from Rataczak are wrong and your commercial pilot apparently never figured out how to use a flight computer. Since 2009 I have explained this any number of times but will do it again, AND FOR THE LAST TIME, just as soon as I have a few hours free. I will also have an upcoming post on the overall flight path. So in the meantime, I suggest that you read the December 3rd post on Dr. Robert Edwards blog and get a copy of the FAA's free publication on aircraft navigation and related subjects.
  12. Full disclosure: I already knew the answers to the questions.
  13. FlyJack, can you give us some firsthand information on British/Canadian locations for buttons and zippers on men's clothes?
  14. Georger, are you talking to yourself again?
  15. Perhaps the pilots had never actually lowered the aft stairs, but they would surely have been informed how to do so in the ground school for their 727 checkout.