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My 2011 Delorme Street Atlas Plus program lists that phone number to "Nopp Vancleave" of Salem, Oregon. So the dedication to Billy Vancleave makes sense. Maybe someone should check on Nopp Vancleave.

OK, glad to hear that. I have another discrepancy I'd like to know about. In at least two locations on Sluggo's site, it says that the stewardess (which is not specified in one location, and the other says Flo) stated that the bomb was eight big red sticks, in two rows. In the Unsolved Mysteries episode about three minutes in, Flo says that the the bomb was 6 sticks wrapped around the battery. Did Unsolved Mysteries take "poetic license" with this, or did her memory of the bomb change that much?

Actually, I started this controversy, and it wasn't to cause trouble, just to try to understand the weather that night. My thought was exactly what you stated: that the weather was rather localized. Perhaps the airliner came out of a thunderstorm into mist, or even clear air. It might have given Cooper a chance to get his bearings and jump at a spot at least familiar to him, if not his ideal jump spot. I saw a comment from Jo that got me to thinking, and I checked the weather reports for that day, at three specific airports: SEATAC, PDX, and Olympia. I added Olympia in, because it is approximately midway between the others. It could have been a very bad night in some areas, and nearly clear in others. I believe you related just such localized weather. Belive me, I am not trying to cause trouble, just trying to understand possibilities.

Speaking of the storms; I have read quite a bit of both threads, plus Sluggo's site, and the Mountain News, and everyone says it was a stormy night, with wind from the southwest at 23 to 25 mph. One of Jo's comments a while back said she had a weather report that the wind was out of the southeast. I thought "hmmm" but no one commented. Well, today I found the following info: About a quarter-inch of rain for the day at each location, and winds were south or southeast at the time of the flight. Could this little bit of variation be significant?

Any thought that DB Cooper might have had a VHF AM receiver of some kind? I'm thinking an early air-band monitor radio. He could have listened to SEA-TAC control, then switched to PDX control, possibly even to the VOR frequency, might have known exactly where he was. Earphone?

I'm not a skydiver, just interested in DB Cooper. Back in post 11460, it was noted that Sluggo's site had indicated that the FBI had dusted all the money with silver-nitrate to bring up fingerprints. Doesn't silver-nitrate eat paper?