Farflung

Well, Mr. Stinky the skunk owner has found some of the money…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUeGvMKRDRM Looks like he is very nice to post this video…. so that gives him a few credibility points there. Plus he wants to notify a lawyer rather than the FBI which is mega points since it has been established how the FBI will lie and conspire and not properly investigate what is dropped right in their laps. This guy seems pretty legit to me, but I’m a gambler and would bet it all on this production and ignore all the other claims which don’t have video or audio of any of their suspects. Posers. He has VIDEO of M-O-N-E-Y which sure looks like Cooper’s and is more than has been produced on this thread. Try going outdoors and looking like this person instead of tearing him down.

What can I say Airtwardo??? You’re the John Wayne of the airplane, the Gary Cooper of umm….. DB Cooper and the ’Potentate of All Things Great’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-QH7f1SSyo Three DC-3s in a formation flight over ‘merica with a jump that defines our national character(s); just the way I like it. That looked like the Hiller DC-3 (1:35-1:45). That grenade drop at (3:04-3:12) really adds a new dimension to ‘Spectator Sport’ while gliding past Old Glory (3:48-4:10) below circling fighter aircraft then landing with the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ playing is the cherry on top of a piping hot, slice of apple pie (code for freedom). I salute you and every person involved in that performance. Truly spectacular and almost rivals my exciting life as an assistant insurance adjuster and Director of the HOA’s lawn length committee. Please allow 377 to use your videos (with express written consent, whatever that is) for his formation of the ‘Fallin Angels LLC’ (which he may or may not be aware of his involvement thus far). I would join just to have ‘Farflung’ stenciled on the side of the plane and to take a ride up AND down once in a while, leaving just 99 others to sign up.

Face it 377, no one’s going to admit ‘it’ so you have to take an active role in guiding (manipulating) people’s decisions. I prefer to call it (parse) sharing the dream. The air of a BBQ is filled with the sweet aroma of the main course and works as the ultimate appetizer, so I would hold a meeting at the Hiller Aviation Museum where there happens to be a DC-3 in their hangar. Add a little music into the mix to build a feeling of anticipation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5M_E56pvE&feature=related Yeah, that’s right. Assault those senses to the edge of sensory overload and hold ‘em there. This means it is time to cue the tug to pull the DC-3 into full view. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQXbtlbQX70&feature=related Next is to appeal at the noble aspect of ‘Fallin Angels’ regarding the survival of these mighty aircraft with a little nostalgia (0:22-0:26). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5ofSHZWTM That was a true slice of Americana pie. “Watchin’ all the planes go by, some live, and others DIE” (0:40-0:47) and he wonders…… wah, wah, wah, wah, wonders……. Why? This is where you set the hook. You directly infer that as a 1%ER they don’t have to let this plane die since you have the power of fractional ownership. Then just let them mill around the plane for a while with a little more mood music. Nothing subliminal cause that’s illegal and stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZqyJxf35U You know, let them think without any pressure or influence as they tour that gleaming, sleek, big round engined, classic beauty that dominated the skies. Is she too much to handle for some? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrS2YcqtEg&feature=related Now you just collect the signed pledges and $999 while helping your fellow man more than they will ever admit. Jumping after hijacking the household account for that amount of money will make them feel just like DB Cooper. Who’s the victim here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKI91FtrhmA&feature=related Just an example of how to market the good times ahead associated with ‘Fallin Angels’ and what a smack with a wet mackerel one feels after landing then slowly going back to their respective ‘realities’. Money well spent in my book.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5klWoMcK0 Time to get those creative juices flowing and craft a new cover for the anticipated Fourth Revision of ‘Into the Blast’. This appears to take a great deal of time and money so I thought I would invest a little of one and none of the other as a sort of sky geek exercise. I just give and give. I felt the cover should have an instant impact on the target customer therefore limiting text or multisyllabic words combined with things that blowed up real good. Additionally I wanted to convey a sense of well being with building stages of dread and fear as the truth is discovered. Parallel to that would be the story structure and how it has withstood time and ‘revised research’. I just hope I have come close to achieving these goals.

OK 377 I think this just might work, Here we sit in a global credit crunch which is going to last for some indeterminate amount of time. I dig how the financial experts are on TV talking about earnings curves and company stock ratings like they have any idea what’s going on. How come not one of them forecast the latest melt down? That just proves how short term our collective memories are. So take a look at this beauty, http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/DOUGLAS-DC-3/DOUGLAS-DC-3/1173155.htm? Former Part 135 rig with records and already painted to look like a jump plane. Man this is perfect and at a price that would barely cover the down payment on a one bedroom condo in the Bay Area four years ago (code for rationalization). Now look at these numbers. http://www.dc3history.org/operatingcosts.html They seem reasonable as in not too low where deferred maintenance becomes a temptation. Using the 500 hour annual rate and removing the debt service (Principle & Interest) renders an hourly rate of $675. At two loads per hour and 25 jumpers would cost out at $13.50 per jump in rough numbers. The debt service would be absorbed by a group of skydiving fractional owners called 1%ERs. Yep for $999 (suggested retail) a person could become an owner of a genuine gubberment DC-3 and enjoy or loath the privileges associated. Which includes discounted jumps, lease backs to other DZs, amortized jump revenues from lowly non fractional aircraft owners (NoFOs), exhibition at air shows and awesome, chick magnet, bragging rights. You know….. Hey baby, see that plane over there……? Now you as a lawyer could form the holding company named ‘Fallin Angles LLC’ for example and start circulating a prospective to the many, many jumpers at Byron. Let’s face it, we’ve all gone to Vegas at one time or another and another…. and dropped at least $999 just to wake the next day and have no idea where that money went; or the pants it was in. I’ll give you some time to rub down the goose bumps.

377, I didn’t forget the 990, just considered it part of the inexplicable program to build a smaller and more expensive but faster aircraft which didn’t catch on. Just like the 1011 was to the DC-10 which was more advanced, better handling and had copious visibility with a larger price tag. Lockheed could barely move 250 of those and that was with huge government bribes and a couple suicides to spice up the story. I guess that there was a need to support Lockheed, Northrop and General Dynamics (nee Convair) as a trio of competing government contractors to keep prices down. Just like they way Boeing competes with other American jet builders like……. ummm hang on… well there is some logic embedded so deep that fragile minds like mine can’t comprehend the sheer magnitude of the genius. By keeping several mammoth contractors building planes forecast to be in the thousands the last 20 years has yielded a sky darkening 21 B-2 bombers and 187 F-22 fighters. See what the government is capable of doing with a few million man years? Yet another example of how easy it would be for them to manage a DB Cooper cover up. Now Boeing and Airbus are fighting for air superiority with the ‘Dreamliner’ which is a smaller airframe than the ‘Skytanic’ A380 which is capable of seating a village. This may be history about to repeat but who knows? Of course both companies had those mind numbing mock ups with ‘sky casinos’, beds and showers which are never ordered. We all know it will be 835 sensory deprivation seats with a couple dozen First Class accommodations. So who has a better design? Last year SFO (your backyard) had a total of 390,000 flights according to the FAA. Time for a little math, that would be over 1,000 flights per day with one operation every two minutes would require 33 hours and with parallel runways make for a 16 hour day and allow for noise abatement regulations. Well it appears that SFO is at or very close to facility saturation in regard to air operations. So whacha think? Smaller faster Boeing or the ‘Supersized jetgasm’ that touches the physical limits of girth and length?

William Greene did not jump or ask for parachutes during his hijacking but his effort deserves a little recognition none the less. For Mr. Greene established the ‘standard ransom’ for a large jet and was among the first to hijack a Convair 880. Now largely a footnote in commercial aviation history since less than 100 were produced (well below any break even figure) and was the last gasp for the company which would focus future efforts on a much wealthier and malleable customer, the gubberment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kxbBuLSRrQ That was awesome (3:55 – 4:30). Yes, Jim Thompson had to explain some basic facts to his wife before she made that pre-dinner, hair appointment, before picking up Jim who got out of a meeting early. I guess suspension of disbelief in 1960 was just the same as it is today with more sophisticated, intelligent and beautiful people in the role of aviation consumer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_UIrzOZAQ&feature=related So few Convair 880s were made, but as luck would have it there is one example on display in the good ‘ol USA. But where would such a crown jewel of aviation be stored? The Smithsonian, National Museum of the Air Force or the Pima Air Museum you imagine. Nope, this time you’re going to Graceland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5531Ztyin4&feature=related What was that on the entry stairs? Would you believe that Elvis bought that 880 from none other than Delta? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g9WjcGdxuM OK, this is getting too weird. Now there is photographic proof and a clear provenance of exactly how Elvis is tied to Flight 305. You’re welcome. Any and all information I have is immediately shared and made public for people to read with their own eyes and be shocked with their own brains or with whatever brains they choose to use. Why doesn’t the gubberment understand me after all the hundreds of emails I’ve sent? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyrQqmc5UT8&feature=related I just feel like everything I do is wrong, I just I hope I can find the strength to continue…..

OK, by now everyone knows (even those with room temp IQs) that Flight 305 landed in Reno, LaPoint’s Airwest flight was bound for Reno and Heady hijacked a United flight from Reno. So logically the next tale would involve…… RENO and hijacking via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTPLUcQAjk It really is hard to believe there is such a boundless demand for gubbermint conspiracies, convict Smokejumpers or homoerotic Airstream trailer romances but this thread will quickly disabuse the most casual of reader of those thoughts. Unemployed gas station attendants, employed magazine subscription phone salesmen and parking lot attendants aren’t enough of a menagerie of occupational face plants to give serendipity hijacking enough credence to make the bottom shelf of consideration. Fair enough then. Let’s behave like this is just another day in America. But why is it just this country? How come Australia or New Zealand doesn’t produce the number of bat shit crazies we do? Ahhh, no matter I guess we should consider it part of our national heritage and embrace it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE6T97DA2o So another United 727 is jacked in Reno by a man riding his bicycle up to the plane with a rifle slung across the handlebars. You gotta admit that no one probably saw that one coming from a mile away. Truly brilliant and elegant in the very simplicity of his design, dare I suggest a sort of backyard savant? Now the hijacker gets down to demands, they are to fly to Vancouver (the Canadian one) then to Seattle (the American one) but first, load his bike on the plane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEy615Jzg4 Ummm, yeah….. all that I said about….. gosh I feel kinda stoopid here….. but could we forget all the gushing I did about that elegant design and savant stuff now? Cause this loser is nuttier than a squirrel turd to think he is going to make good an escape on his bicycle. Perhaps he was going to get full on ‘Lance Armstongish’ during touchdown and ride down the aft stairs and make good his escape with 15 gold bars, 2 large bull horns, 3 small ones, 20 pairs of handcuffs, 300 feet of nylon rope, 3 binoculars and carrying cases, large box of quick acting sleeping pills, some pep pills, ammonia inhalers, 3 one mile beam flashlights, 3 Zenith portable radios, 1 powerful VHF transceiver, 3 Thompson submachine guns, 12 fully loaded clips, 3 Python 357s and 50 rounds of ammunition. It is possible. But instead the hijacker’s demand for a new crew in Seattle was answered with a pair of FBI agents posing as pilots who had a confederate hand a gun to them through the sliding window which was used to disable Mr. Frank Sibley with a bi-shot to his shoulder and leg. He fell to the ground but continued to menace agents with a basket of fresh raspberries. You know I made up that part about the raspberries don’t you? Don’t you?

Smart move putting that disclaimer about the chilito, there must be a barrel of them on this thread and to think otherwise would make you the….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwGVDmEsi8A That’s not to say there is a steaming shortage of that commodity either. P.S., I checked Taco John’s menu for chilitos and they don’t exist, but don’t worry, it will be our secret here on PM where messages are private and not for public view. The others don’t need to know.

Excellent Vicki, Once again you hide in the weeds then attack when least expected. But what kind of cowboy? Could this be the type? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw Something more noir perhaps? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6WD7B_I_9c Surely not this suburban legend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpvyoDk2eM8 But then I know what my tastes gravitate towards, haaaa….. haaaaa!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47W1pNC1QHw&feature=fvst Through rain and wind and weather… sounds like it was written for Cooper’s jump. But who’s to say, the name ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ always conjures, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CDERzun4k

Now for the tragic story of another ‘Sad Sack’ veteran that was looking for that jackpot from a hijacking. Of course I’m talking about Robb D. Heady of the ‘Biggest Little Hijacking City in the World’……. Reno. What’s up with that? Anyway, Robb has refined the process by bringing his own backpack and parachute while wearing a disguise as he bum rushed the 727. Once on board he asked for the traditional $200,000 but this time they were to be $100s, none of those bulky 20s for this hijacker. Then he releases the PAX but has to switch planes due to low fuel and a bad engine. Heady uses the Stewardesses as human shields and boards the second plane still wearing his pillow case with eye holes. Heady gets the money collected from local casinos and begins to pack his knapsack to discover it’s too small. Nooooooooooooo…. (cough, cough)….. oooooooooooooooooo. So he jams around $155,000 into his pack and jumps from this 727 into the pitch dark at 14,000 feet. So much for the magic 10,000 foot altitude and oxygen masks going off stuff from Cooper’s heist. Considering that Reno’s elevation is 4,415 feet and 3 inches one may need that extra vertical airspace to complete a successful jump. So anecdotally the O2 mask deployment consideration would at best be location dependent if the hijacker gave a hoot in the first place. Fortunately this thread is a haven from non-linear processes and non sequitur leaps of logic, that’s for sure. This aircrew was very sure that the hijacker had jumped. How sure you intelligently ask? They took forty acres and they turned that rig around and headed back to Reno. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDxVJ471hyg Yep, instead of flying to where ever in some ridiculous configuration and flirting with controlled flight into terrain they were sure enough to land some thirty minutes after takeoff. I don’t know the details but they may have even raised and locked the stairs on this flight. I’m sure one of the many crack researchers will find the one true answer and use this as a boilerplate for theory validation. Nahhhhh, I was just kidding, too dry and technical, conspiracies and Roswell Aliens are way more fun and don’t require any of that buzzkill logic or reason. Within half a day the cops catch Heady as he is walking to his car which was parked in the danger zone on the east side of Washoe Lake. He had lost his money during the jump. Nooooooooooooooo……. (cough, cough)…. ooooooooooooooo. Back then the wheels of justice turned much quicker and Heady was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a requirement that he serve at least ten. Well, that is a very interesting profile of another hijacking with many similarities to Cooper’s. At least one can add another tick mark to the ‘Goober’ column in regards to aeronautical and aft stair knowledge. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened to Robb Heady after he mishandled around $45,000 of cash in that wind blasted plane and then could not hold on to the remaining $155,000 for more than a few seconds? http://www.durangocowboygathering.org/about.php Nooooooooooooo…. (cough, cough)…. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Martin Joseph McNally hijacked a 727 in St Louis with a sub machine gun for $502,500. The unusual amount of the ransom was to cover his expenses while perpetrating the crime. Apparently the accomplice could not see any reason to give a portion from his half of the ransom for overhead. They display a superb business sense and appreciation for non-value adding activities by eliminating all waste while keeping their process nimble. Unfortunately he lost his gun, the money and his ……… pants during the jump. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEE0qpfeig Too bad he wasn’t wearing parachute pants which would come back into vogue in less than 20 years anyway. Before he was able to take off from St Louis, someone added a page to the book of ‘Hold My Beer and Watch This’. Yes, apparently a salesman named Hanley was enjoying some libations at the local tavern and upon hearing the news of the hijacking at the adjacent Lambert Field, began to morph into the ‘Eldorado Avenger!’ He crashed the gates of the airport in his Caddy Eldo and smacked the landing gear of the 727 at full ramming speed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOnO_aBJ8g&feature=related This forced McNally to change planes where he was finally able to jump and survive the landing with a few scratches and twigs in his hair. Although he had just lost everything he was able to acquire some transportation via the use of diabolical cunning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwnAs4iwaE Well as luck would have it, he got a ride. As irony requires, it was from the County Sheriff who checked out the bruised and battered, pant less man but released him at the local motel since he didn’t match the description of the hijacker given by the airline (insert uncomfortably long and incredulous pause here). So much for small town law enforcement. Anyway, McNally checks into the Peru Motor Lodge where the night clerk notices his scratched face, arms and twig laced hair to ask “So are you the hijacker everyone’s looking for?” McNally explained his brother beat him up and threw him out of the house. He was given a room where he called for a ride back to the suburbs of Detroit, MI. So much for small town motel night clerks. The Sheriff was shown a photo of McNally a few days later and confessed he had picked up the man that night and gave him a lift to the motel. The FBI knocked on McNally’s door that afternoon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBeT4ptY9sY

As a citizen researcher I was able to discover some more information about that Hughes Airwest hijacking on 20 Jan 1972 where a DC-9 was commandeered with a successful jump with resolution to the crime. This no doubt will be of substantial aid to any research in regards to hijacking. I have also selflessly included my theory about Flight 800 and the mystery crew which must be known to the same ad nauseam detail of Flight 305 in a comprehensive graphic. You’re welcome. Now we just need a detailed description of the stewardesses who were onboard McCoy’s and McNally’s flight. I know I’m not going to rest until they are revealed. Does anyone have any information on these crew members? I can’t do this all by myself.

On 20 Jan 1972 (some 57 days after Cooper) a 23 year old, hijacked a Hughes Airwest, DC-9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XMuyFjIsyY&feature=related leaving Las Vegas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzf_pMpcnQ0 That is a very short amount of time to review design drawings, learn to operate a different aft stair system and establish if the DC-9 was ‘jumpable’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9g7sBVUFMs sans the covert jungle ops that seems to give people goose bumps for some reason. He displayed an explosive device, requested a ransom and some parachutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vn8uX4_hI8 As the aircraft was over Colorado (the hijacker’s home turf) he jumped from the plane. This experiment had another variable in that the FBI delivered parachutes with homing transmitters and tracked the guy down on the ground still clutching his money. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JbBVKQDTWQ Yawwwwnnnnnnn, where’s the intrigue in that story? No secret ops, grudges against the government or even a disgruntled Hughes Airwest employee who was captured in an Airstream with his ‘special friend’. More importantly why no photos of the Stewardesses from that flight? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e_bXaf1TV8&feature=related Did any of them go on to live at the ‘Mourning Wood Convent’ in southern Nevada? Why hasn’t the LaPoint story developed a third nipple in the form of FBI incompetence, scandal or a homoerotic love interest? By May of the same year he was sentenced to forty in a ……… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPcql4FuCK0

Hangdiver, Those Ranger and SEAL fakers must be some truly empty vessels to have assumed those roles and to have assumed that no one can see right through them. They all use the same lame playbook where they manufacture some tale and when they get caught; pull out the ‘I can’t say anymore’ card because of national security or a threat being made on someone’s life, oh boy. Having a title or qualifications, regardless the source, allows the average person to place that over worked common sense (assuming any to begin with) into a vegetative coma while trying on their new ‘victim uniforms’. For no one would dare question the claims a ‘man of the cloth’ would make lest they be banished to Abaddon or Fresno. Same for the former chairman of the NASDAQ or that Argentinean ‘Plastic Surgeon’ who serviced Priscilla Presley who both operated for extended periods of time. Attention Earth: Licenses and Credentials are not for when a person guesses correctly. But amid all the people living lives of quiet desperation or loud insecurity is that one person who restores my faith in the kindness of strangers and that man may be inherently good: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110520/ap_on_fe_st/us_found_money Now all we have to do is find out what airline that bastard hijacked to get all that cash and I know this thread has the talent to do just that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es5wjM7i9PQ

The latest info I received from someone who has no reason to make this up, just like that Preacher claiming to be a SEAL. Would a preacher lie? This is a transcript secretly sent (at great personal peril, like losing retirement benefits) just days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_GQWX8IbuY START FBI///MSG CNTR///COOPER CU///WIRE TAP BNTWD-CHI///asdfccvvvvgfdws Maria: What’s wrong Arnold, you seem distracted? Arnold: It’s diss coo-PAH tread again, dah eff bee EYE won’t properly IN-ves-tah-gayte Duane Wehh-BAH. Maria: It might be a rumor. Arnold: It’s not a RUE-mah! It’s not a RUE-mah, at all. Maria: I’m sure the FBI has looked into his background properly remember when I talked to the Director? Arnold: NO! You don’t un-DAH-stan they did NOT talk to dee Aye-jent uff reh-CORD, dey blew it. Maria: Calm down and come to bed, it is especially clean today like the sheets were washed several times and perfumed heavily. Arnold: How can I go to bet wid diss cooo-PAH on my mind? I’m going to dah office and get pumped up. Telephone: Ring Ring….. Ring Ring (all Englishy and classy) Maria: Hello? (all Bel Airish and classy) Oprah: Hello Mariaaaaahh it’s OOOprahhhhhhhhh!!! Can I talk to the husbandinatorrrrrr? Since he was in Kindergarten Cop, Junior and Twins I thought he would be perfect for my finale show as a ‘sensitive giant of a family man’ guest. Maria: He’s not here he went to the office to work. Oprah: It is 3 AM that seems like an odd time to go to work, aren’t you afraid of any monkey business? Maria: His office is in Santa Monica and my brother is the Mayor who has the police orbit the place anytime he leaves. If he was up to anything untowardly I would be the first to find out. Oprah: I was just hoping for something really spec-TAC-U-larrrrrrrrrrrrr for my last show. Sorry this could not work out. Maria: Me too Oprah, I just wish I had some way to contribute to your show but being the former first lady of California isn’t that much of a draw. Oprah: Don’t sell yourself so short Maria. I’m sure you will be back on the little screen in no time. Maria: Thanks for saying that Oprah, I hope you’re right, bye. Oprah: Oprah is always right, bwah bwahhh ha ha ha ha, byeeeeeeeee! EOM FBI////Brentwood Residential Bathroom Surveillance///Weber cover up///FBI///ccsdkrlee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTO8_KNcuo

Now I understand how the Cooper composite matches so many other suspects as ‘exact’, ‘spitting images’ and ‘nearly identical’. For the same has been said about Arnold’s kid from the maid he did. Most people must be delusional, easily persuaded or the lesser PC answer of - simply stoopid to arrive at these conclusions. But one thing is for sure, the Kennedy machinery is turning and Arnold better think fast or avoid all bridges, air travel and ski slope trees for the rest of his presumably short life. He needs to launch a devastatingly brilliant offense as his best defense while preemptively quashing any further actions from the enemy compound. Yes, that’s right; I’m referring to rolling out the ‘Skakel Tree Fertilization Explanation’ again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIY8CoMILgU So Arnold is minding his own business, on his private property in America and happens to be standing on the branch of one of his trees in order to better survey all that he owns. While reflecting on his humble origins and how far he has come an involuntary response churns within his loins……. ….. sometime later the maid on one of her many generously provided breaks takes her comprehensive, universal medical coverage booklet generously provided by her employer even though it was not required and sat beneath that tree for a little light reading. Here is where evolution completes an inevitable and intelligently designed course. Arnold being the Alpha Male of all other Alpha Males produces the most potent of pheromones which attract the abundantly fertile maid to select that precise location upon which to review her employers generosity. The equally potent ‘genetic material’ simply completed the path it was destined to take from eons of evolution which will eventually produce a master race. It’s all about the science and logic, just like all the Cooper theories.

I can safely attest to having consumed many crawfish and several forms of gator during my time stationed in Mississippi. Really enjoyed myself there and how vastly different of a region it was in the 70’s. I recall people making references to ‘Three Two Beer’ and did not have the stones to ask what in the world they were talking about. The booze laws were feast or famine in Ole Miss since there were (are?) dry counties and counties where the drinking age was…… 18. Seems so strange now that the nation has federalized the sale of alcohol through highway funds, just the way I like it; free of irony. Even got all dangerous one time and went to some old timer’s house to buy some genuine ‘White Lightning’. It came in a Kerr Jar with a well used and dented lid for the popular price of one foldin’ dollar. Just the act of opening the container took away my breath, caused my eyes to water and my liver to go into contractions. I have never since, nor do I hope I ever will, feel such an intense and immediate burning of my stomach lining while experiencing the loss of peripheral vision, motor skills and several ounces of urine, most of which was mine. God I was cool. After my dalliance with 195 proof liquid death, I learned to appreciate 3.2 percent beer and asked for it by name. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2Tl5BeK-U Son of a gun, gonna have big fun on the bayou…….

On a completely related note to the Cooper thread, Arnold Schwarzenegger has become entwined in some sort of sex scandal. Presumably because the FBI was withholding information about Duane from what I can gather. If only Californians has elected Meg Whitman there would have never been any association of the Governor’s Office with any type of sex or even the most oblique thought of the act. Although both of them have been linked to screwing their maids, kinda weird and freaky. Oh well; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

smokin99, I too have an affinity for distinct musical genres like….. “Swamp Rock”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkdcUa-pQlg&NR=1 Lawd have mercy, mmmph!!, mmmph!! Now that’s ‘merican elocution fer ya. How can anyone understand those lyrics? Yeah, how, how, how? Yeah, how, how, how? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU Guess this should be filed under “Unintelligible Lyrics Rock”. Just as soon be called full of wind I guess….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASxaSpGJmic&feature=related

Now that we live in the Space Age any thoughts of the Jet Age seem long forgotten. One only has to marvel at the level this new and sophisticated technology has brought to the masses where Taxi fare can now exceed air fare. Fantastic and the customer base certainly reflect these achievements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjw585ZnJwI Yes, nothing beats the warm embrace your fellow traveler radiates which makes each and every flight a new adventure bringing one group of trailer occupants together with another several time zones apart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNEJrd6GkSY Yeah riiiight, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYspsgIjb4U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qo-nOVCwh4 The airlines are well aware of exactly what they are doing and why you tolerate it. Quality, comfort or safety, Bwahh, ha ha ha ha ha. Lemme clue ya into an ole design credo that may clarify some things – “Buyers are Liars”. They only care about price, hit ‘em with an amp of Thorazine and ‘Bat Hang’ them like sides of beef in the fuselage for less cash and your plane will runneth over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPwn_HaZm0 Recognize that Sky Cap from ‘Good Times’? No matter, we have proven just what motivates us and it is laziness and greed. The Boeing 707 was put into service in 1958 and effectively killed any piston competition on speed, price and comfort. By the time the 727 was used many years later there was no reason to fly one into Shemya. That is assuming you are willing to discount the military presence and occupation long before the 727 launch. Dropping the aft stairs as a speed brake for a narrow body jet on a 10,000 foot runway? Really? Gosh, it is almost like people on the internet don’t care about what they type, irrespective of showing their true identity. Just a little logic will give one all they need to rest easy at night. Do I think the people who claim that the aft stairs on 727s were deployed as drag devices are full of it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyi-niNoGiE

Here is a bit of video shot in the tail of a C-130. Now this is a very large aft stair (don’t be jealous 727) and was in use way before the 727 or DC-9. Was there fear of the plane inverting or going wildly out of control with that ramp hanging out there with some impressive girth (don’t feel inadequate 727)? Don’t think so as Paratroopers used this thing on a regular basis. So where did the data points about Boeing’s concern about lowering the aft stairs come from? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2nNXpiELg&feature=related Does this video convey a sense of chaos or appear to have any attributes of a tempest? Looks pretty calm and relatively quiet to me. Gosh the way that wind is tearing and ripping through the fuselage it is a miracle that the fabric at the aft opening isn’t tearing itself apart. Come on Hollywood make something blow up real good for me. What was it that hunter found near Toutle? Boarding pass…. SkyMall magazine… Northwest Orient flatware… ahhh, that’s right it was the aft stair emergency operation instruction placard. No doubt that was torn by the beastly windblast which whipped and spanked that 727’s supple, pouting, tail cone. That is the only solution damn it because I said so and you will agree with my manly man viewpoint or my frustration may materialize in the physical destruction of something. Here are a couple perspectives of the 727’s cousin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DM0xF7xTE&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8_l1E1Bt0&NR=1 The following is a clip of the 727 in action during retraction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXB1Y9kISg&feature=related What caused that placard to detach and jettison? A. The violent windblast, that naughty, naughty windblast. B. Cooper’s rig caught the placard and tore it free. C. Cooper tore it off the wall in a fit of frustration after he failed to get the equipment to work. D. Tina tore it off the wall and held it in Cooper’s face to mock the fact that he was incapable of operating such a simple and small device. Then she huffed and turned her back before telling all of her friends about what Dan couldn’t do last night. E. Duane tore it off but planted it in the woods later. F. The FAA’s mindless requirements for fire resistant polymers combined with several hundred pounds of tensile strength measured on a certified vibration table for a period of no less than 15 minutes nor more than two hours in a climate controlled environment capable of ambient temps of -15 C to 90 C with relative humidity of 85 percent with pressures variable from SL to plus 6 atmospheres repeated twice within a period not to exceed 24 hours excluding daylight savings or as practicable. G. What was the question? H. What does the placard from Cooper’s plane have to do with DB Cooper? I. How is this remotely about (insert favorite suspect name here) who everyone knows is Cooper? J. The FBI tore it off right after they left a Towncraft tie in the seat. K. I don’t know, but this thread is too long and interferes with my fulfilling life and should be closed. L. That bloody hook which was still attached to the handrail after the plane landed near Lover’s Lane. M. It was a hunter that had walked down the stairs in Portland and it fell off while he was in the woods near Toutle but found it while walking back. N. Probably some extremely complex process. O. One of the flares being tossed out the tail dislodged the sign. P. God. Q. A parakeet. R. Resonant sound frequencies from Engine 2 set at 93 percent power while in a nose high attitude. S. Let’s stop kidding each other we all know damn well it was some ginger kid. T. There never was a placard in the plane, that’s just what ‘they’ want you to think. U. Could be something weird that caused it that no man is capable of understanding. V. It may or may not have been a person or thing. W. I have the answer but can’t say so I’ll just leave it at that. X. I have the answer also and can’t say but the person who chooses ‘W’ is wrong. Y. It was my understanding there would be no math in this quiz. Z. The gubberment.

I thought it may help having a few examples of less than perfect demonstrations of aerial prowess. What if a middle aged housewife got into an ultra light aircraft but only flew for a short distance and kept it low? The brochures say any one can fly them with a minimum of instruction. But what precisely is the benchmark for minimum instruction anyway and why is this viewed as a feature? I mean it’s not like anyone would ever just take off without any flight instruction. ‘cause that would be stupid and stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrxfrr7oE8 What about a little, tiny, itty-bitty helicopter with a 2 stroke engine being flown by a friend of the owner? Helicopters won’t crash like fixed wing aircraft thanks to autorotation! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq3GRFOKK2g Perhaps he is a former friend now. Hey! can there be anything better than a quick flight on a beautiful summer day? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeqQY3t174 Who wants an Orange Whip? I know all that dry air at altitude always leaves me with a powerful thirst. I wonder if they contacted Guinness about completing the’ World’s Shortest and Most Exciting Flight’. I think I would have just been content with having a few Guinness’ afterwards. Oh well. Be that as it may, all of these flights were survived by all occupants in spite of operator incompetence. Of the three Cooper Copy Cats, the most experienced was the one to suffer the greatest injury. McNally jumped after reading the how to skydive instructions which were part of his ransom demands. Maybe Duane did learn to skydive on the farm; although I’m not sure what a farm has to do with skydiving or flying, but it must have some relevance as this was not questioned like the Third Amendment’s. Hangdiver, your actions best reflect the aviation axiom “There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, there are NO - OLD BOLD PILOTS.”

I think there is a lot to be said about self educated aviators like the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss and my personal favorite Cline Hogg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3mQ5EwXoFE Should uninsured, untrained and unafraid pilots be prevented from grabbing their dreams like Mr. Hogg? Well I say when pigs fly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLmpL2AzLs What about the Third Amendment? You can have my Cyclic and Collective when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

377, Those Beech pics are the very definition of the aviation paradox. Which is also part of the ‘Cosmic Unconsciousness’ that Miller so eloquently references: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QKiYar9pI Yep I’ve studied the greats of philosophy - Rawls, Homer and now Miller. As I get older their individual wisdom becomes more apparent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwYEGdKto8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY I tried my level best to make a business plan for a $17 jump plane and for the life of me could do little more than make it into a slow death from evaporating revenues. That was starting with no debt service and flying some craft with an assumed life span of engine TBO to scrap and still could not find a way to fly for free. That is real hard duty going from the surface to alt two times an hour let alone three or four. I’ve listened to some guys (code for Corporate Fauntleroys) go on and on about how if they had a certain type of aircraft they could increase their efficiency in their company blah, blah, blah. They are always surprised at my resistance to corporate aviation since I was in the business. Just can’t get past planning a more efficient schedule or using the commercial infrastructure, driving or even ‘Mobilejets’ (http://www.mobilejets.com/) as a much more economic solution versus some sleek, sexy Beech Jet with a six digit cost for doing nothing more than sitting in a hangar. As long as the accelerated depreciation and tax breaks exist there will be a cadre of individuals who will claim that an aircraft is essential for their business. Even if that business is a single office medical practice where the plane is only used to fly to Aspen or Palm Springs for ‘seminars’. Usually while the Nth person is trying to convince me that they truly need one of these conveniences I just stare at the ceiling and think of England until they are through. But those kickers, sprayers and jump planes are another breed along with the wildlife inside. Both are used to maximum performance on a daily basis and receive meager reward for such reliable service. “No explanation, no point in lookin’ for one either.” - Miller