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Wow. I sure missed a lot not being here for a whole year! I guess no one has found Cooper yet. I did find Felix and his personal trainer, Joe Kittinger, quite fascinating in the interlude. 377, candidate advocate is so rhytymical, like candidates debate. Pusher is much dirtier.

R99, while catching up on my reading, I see you have been discussing AE and TIGHAR for some time. I brought this up only because I saw it in the news, and like Cooper, Earhart is a famous missing person who seemingly fell to Earth somewhere. I still have 60 pages left to get to here.

Well, I've missed a few pages since my last visit. I see that TIGHAR is on to something with Amelia Earhart. Can DBC be far behind?

An act of air piracy happened over 40 years ago, There are very few facts, witnesses, known suspects or conspirators. Essentially, no "truths". Did he get away with $200k? Obviously, yes. Define "get away". Get away may be fish food at the bottom of the Columbia. Perhaps hanging from a tree in Washington, skeletal remains in a harness. Possibly farming in Argentina. There is one, and only one factual solution to this mystery. There are many possible scenarios playing out. You do not need "qualifications" to play at this, at least not any more qualifications than are necessary to play ring toss, for instance.

My fried stopped a large projectile with this apparatus. Prior to stopping the projectile, he hated carrying it. I believe his was even bulkier.

Once, when I was about nine or ten, I was walking home from school, and it was pouring rain on one side of the street, and it was fairly sunny on the other side. How curious, I thought.

If one looks at the first video closely, the old Ford truck being blow into the body of water is stripped down, has no engine, driver, etc. It has a large surface area to mass distribution. It looks good though. I don't believe the exhaust from a 727 would come into play regarding someone alighting from the back stairs. I have walked behind running jet engines at various throttle settings and have lived to tell about it. I can tell you they are hot and smelly. BTW, what sort of rig does Santa carry in the sled?

We also had the Kurt Vonnegut types, captured infantrymen, sent to various POW camps. In Vonnegut's case, that was Slaughterhouse-5. I suspect more downed fliers were inhabitants of the Stalags. I do not know the exact stats. It is fairly clear that the parachutes of the era were quite functional. EDIT: The scope of the Allied POWs was tremendous in number. This link is more than anyone really needs to know, and has no bearing on the Cooper case whatsoever. http://worldwar2database.com/html/alliedpoweto.htm

I seem to recall my Dad saying it was get the canopy open, dive out behind the wing and try to miss the tail section. Then, pull the cord. I suppose that was Navy training. If you are over open ocean, lots of other bad things can follow, but at least you have a chance this way. Did the term "freefall" actually exist during WWII? And, BTW, how does anyone know DBC had an imbalanced load when he left? I am assuming that any load you can put on your "low pressure side", such as your main chute, constitutes "balanced"? Is the preferred method front and back symmetry?

The term "everyone" was used as a figure of speech. Please forgive my poor choice of words.

What makes everyone so sure she is telling the truth about anything?

Hi Marla: So, how do you feel about having close relatives threaten the murder of dozens of people for profit? And, do you happen to have one of those $20's, or maybe a bit of parachute? Thanks, and enjoy your stay. Pat

Oops. Marla refers to this forum as jumpzone on FB. I was stationed in OK for a couple of years, and there are a few unique things about the place. The ratio of churches to taverns is very high, for example. The Lucas systems had 12VDC positive ground electrics. I wish I still had my Sunbeam.

It's actually jumpzone in Oklahoma.

I have believed since last August that MC is in it for the money. Perhaps her idea of potential and the reality of what is to be made are two very different things, bit I am convinced the motive is profit. I started reading this forum after MC started getting press regarding the "breakthrough" on DBC. I think she jumped on Grays coattails. Whether she believes her story to be true is not material to the DBC solution. She has a calculated snarkiness to her narrative which I find contrived.