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Airtwardo wrote: ...it would have been even easier on a round, pull the ripcord and sit there. ***
At first I thought Airtwardo was way off with this statement but then I thought about it and he is probably right. No worries about slamming into something at a speed a lot higher than the wind is blowing, no need to flare the canopy which requires good info on distance to the ground, no worries about unfixable line twists and killer spins...
All things considered, a C9 military round is a pretty good choice for the jump Cooper made. I do wonder if it had a steering mod like a 4 line release. Cossey should know.
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At first I thought Airtwardo was way off with this statement but then I thought about it and he is probably right. No worries about slamming into something at a speed a lot higher than the wind is blowing, no need to flare the canopy which requires good info on distance to the ground, no worries about unfixable line twists and killer spins...
All things considered, a C9 military round is a pretty good choice for the jump Cooper made. I do wonder if it had a steering mod like a 4 line release. Cossey should know.
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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
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Airtwardo wrote: ...it would have been even easier on a round, pull the ripcord and sit there. ***
At first I thought Airtwardo was way off with this statement but then I thought about it and he is probably right. No worries about slamming into something at a speed a lot higher than the wind is blowing, no need to flare the canopy which requires good info on distance to the ground, no worries about unfixable line twists and killer spins...
All things considered, a C9 military round is a pretty good choice for the jump Cooper made. I do wonder if it had a steering mod like a 4 line release. Cossey should know.
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was there a machine shop inside the chute cooper
pulled out?
could some of the particles on the tie have come \
from exposure to the canopy pulled out? did cossey
do maching working with Ti etc ?
Well...I have literally hundreds of night jumps with gear strapped to me in all different kinds of configurations. So far I've been successful every time, and that's flying a square canopy...it would have been even easier on a round, pull the ripcord and sit there.
I believe the odds are better than even that the skyjacker, who ever he was, survived the jump...I think that since NONE of the money was ever actually found in circulation he dropped it on opening, or buried it upon landing and never recovered it.
Ya gotta admit, watching the ill gotten gains of such an adventure float away in the darkness would be pretty disheartening and not something one who had planned everything 'else' so well would want to brag about...and IF he landed with it, would not diggin' a hole for the parachute and the cash, be the only sensible thing to do?
I mean walking around the toolies with either a parachute or stash of cash during an extensive manhunt might tend to lower the expectation of getting away.
I question the logic of those who say 'so&so' had and spent a bunch of unaccounted for money during a period of time following the hijacking.
From what I understand none of the cash, the recorded serial numbers, ever went back through the national treasury.
How is that possible if either Duane or KC 'spent' mysterious money they didn't earn the 'old fashion' way ?
AS an experienced skydiver, I tend to believe that 'Cooper' had a pretty good 'plan' up until the jump, that he survived but 'lost control' of the money somewhere between the time he exited and the days following. He either dropped it from altitude OR he forgot where he put it...maybe after lugging it around for a while ole DB thought sticking the money in a hole by a river would be okay and an easy place to find later.
~OR maybe in the time following, he figured out the serial numbers were traceable and just said the hell with it, not worth going back for!
DOH, ...so close yet so far!
"SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
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