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I’d just like to thank you all for reading my post, I understand that giving another persons point of view objective consideration can be difficult and for that I’m grateful. My apologies if I’ve in some way stretched the truth that was not my intent. I think I’ve found an individual who has many characteristics that were also “possibly” possessed by Cooper. Some of these characteristics are uncommon and when considered cumulatively Bishop seems to me to be one of very few. When taking this into consideration I find it difficult to reconcile other details of Bishop’s life as mere coincidence. I agree with many of your criticisms however I disagree that these discrepancies diminish my argument for Bishop as a legitimate possibility. I’m not interested in convincing anyone to agree with what I’ve suggested, I just wanted to communicate something that I’ve “stumbled upon” to those most invested in the case. I think I’ve accomplished that so I’ll leave you to it, good luck solving Cooper I’ve no doubt you’ll get there in the end. Sincerely.

Everyone ride down? Huh, interesting. Not the way I've seen it done a couple times over the decades. Just contain it out of the way and others jump. Although admittedly if others jump, that is a bit of a, "Screw you you dumbass, you can sit there white-knuckle clutching your damn parachute, we're going jumping like we planned" move.... Or in more detail, keep door closed, contain the parachute, shuffle the guy to the front of the Caravan for example (far from the door), then the guy stays in the plane (plus an instructor if he's a student), others jump. It's not hard to hold on to or sit up against a spring loaded PC or a bagged main, holding it against a wall or bulkhead. Or if it is a C-182, get him to the back corner and the rest could jump. Although there can be variations depending on experience levels, like deciding it is safer just to descend with the full load in the 182, because it is cramped or moving a scared student could be tricky or whatever. Sure one is assuming someone else isn't going to take the tail off on that very same jump run and leave the unfortunate jumper with an even crappier than usual situation! But certainly everyone riding down is a valid thing to do.

If someone reopens the aircraft door and I am in the aircraft with a loose canopy or pilot chute, I'm going to lose my damn mind. "and all ride down with the aircraft"

They are getting a little time off for attacks/trolling.

There is absolutely nothing any of us can do about suspects proposed .... seems to me all of this needs to be presented to the FBI with "actionable" data attached: dna, fingerprints, $20 Cooper bills, parachute, etc. There are so many suspects by now the system is clogged by them all. Every presenter is "sure" his or her suspect is the real DB Cooper. You could spend ten lifetimes processing them all and still wind up at a dead end!

I sold my Cruise Air and bought a Pegasus. As much as I liked the Cruise Air, the first thing you did after opening was pump the brakes to get the end cells inflated. The Pegasus had cross-port venting that allowed the end cells to inflate immediately after opening. Of the 145 jumps I made on the Pegasus, I only had one reserve ride in which it opened in a rapid spin. I cut away and opened the Firefly reserve, which, like the Pegasus, was rock solid and stable. The landings were incredibly soft as well.

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Everyone rides down. Opening the door with a loose pilot chute, main or reserve canopy is REALLY stupid.

The nose does not have to be oriented toward the side as originally laid down. The nose can be prepared just as when pro-packing, and it can be oriented to the floor as a pro-pack is.

If a parachute is even partly open in the plane, it creates a HUGE risk of inflating immediately outside the door and ripping the tail off of the airplane. That is why we keep the door closed. I have seen a few attempts at re-closing rigs in the airplane. Most were successful from a rigging point-of-view, but the user was too rattled to pull the correct handles in the correct sequence.

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That chin is a giveaway! It amazes me how far people are willing to go to stretch somebody into the Cooper category. It started with Barb Dayton a woman (Smith etal). What is next? A chimpanzee ? The 'theorists' are not keeping up with the recent data! Whatever Cooper's precise LZ was, Cooper and the money were NOT in the Columbia for at least one year after the hijacking. That is now an established fact based on the rubber bands history. The money and the bands were in a warm/hot dry environment for at least one year after Nov 24, 1971. That is an undeniable NEW fact. The Columbia river does not fit those conditions.

Ugh, I had something like that, similar canopy, similar size, back when Sabres -- the first common zero-P canopies in North America -- were new in the early 1990's. "One last really good looking set of turns before heading to the pattern." And the canopy started spiralling. Don't know how it got out of multiple twists so fast but I didn't need to do the low pull-both-handles-simultaneously thing. Those Sabre-class canopies were fast turning, but could snap you into near zero-G, so it was easy to get out of sync when doing snappy toggle turns, unload the lines, and twist up. Others had the same issue -- Saw an experienced jumper do something similar (without the spiral), and some multi-thousand jump Canadian jumper died from low line twists/spiral back in the early Sabre etc era too. It was jump 187 for me, with the added complication of a large early 1990s video camera strapped to my shin with a wide angle lens looking up at the canopy for some maneuvering video. Barely got any video in the end anyways, as the Sony's shake detection mechanism shut down the video tape transport about a second into my line twists.

Jump 50 something was loaned a Sabre 170 to taste downsizing. First jump, just above pattern height, I decided to try some “reverse turns”. Got a bit too deep on the toggle on the 3rd turn, and it just snapped 360 degrees into a line twist. The feeling of being spun up under 1,000’ isn’t something I care to experience ever again. Several thousand jumps later, I was filming tandems. On opening and doing my housekeeping after my 6th jump of the day, I felt a little tingle, like my routine and practically subconscious chest-strap unbuckling procedure had felt different this time somehow. on review of hand cam footage, my chest strap was misrouted. Through the buckle and folded excess stowed in a rubber band. Don’t do either of those.