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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #3255 on: August 09, 2020, 07:56:18 PM »
When will Cooper become black and why not?
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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #3256 on: August 09, 2020, 07:59:07 PM »
When did the flight path become similar to descriptions?
 

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« Reply #3257 on: August 09, 2020, 08:01:23 PM »
Didn't Ammerman expand his duties?
 

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« Reply #3258 on: August 09, 2020, 10:23:04 PM »
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When would out National defense system be down. it ran 24/7? the system had issues from the ground to the fighters?

Portland doesn't have to be involved directly with the hijacking..why is this so hard to understand? are all of these documents surrounding the Portland radar operators more plots for a conspiracy, why would they say what they did if they had no idea where 305 was was and how did it end up similar to the map?

Again, you made claims many times over the years about having a bomb and flying over cities, right? why in the world wouldn't the ground want to know where that plane was. especially in there own airspace? that doesn't explain away the statements made by the operators. 

Ammerman explains being on 150 mile range and not very effective, correct? he also claims Portland would be on 40 miles and much more precise, right? how is it they both come to the same conclusions (Portland) while two people that are not operators or "involved in the actual tracking" were right? this is like trying to explain away witnesses seeing a subject run out of a front door and you stating they came out of the back door?

These are tough hurdles to get over in order to change the path IMHO. I'm all for it but everything needs a valid reason to dismiss..

Basically, I don't know anything about the SAGE system or where it fit into the North American Air Defense Command's operation inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  But the air defense system for the western hemisphere started at about the North Pole.  Have you hear of the DEW (Distant Early Warning) radars in Northern Canada and Alaska.  Also, do you remember seeing any Navy EC-121 Constellations flying around with large radar domes on the top of the fuselage.  They covered the spots that the radars couldn't cover, and I happened to know some crew members who were on those 121's during 12+ hour missions.

The national air defense system did not start at McChord AFB in Seattle but thousands of miles north & east & west of there. 
 

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #3259 on: August 09, 2020, 10:45:52 PM »

I'm no expert on the SAGE either but read a lot about it. the system was divided into sectors similar to the traffic control system. all linked together. this included "Texas towers" in the ocean for increased warning time. I'm sure just as any other system it had it flaws. they had to identify everything in the air marking friend or foe..Cooper might of fell into the foe..might of been a great exercise for them tracking the plane, I don't know.

We all have questions and concerns revolving around the flight and the jump..no question about it..lots of things have to be properly dismissed to make any adjustments to where Cooper landed. it's hard when we don't have all the evidence. I'm not 100% on any of this, never have been. still undecided whether Cooper survived..Tom Kaye has been opening new doors for years and still doesn't push any single issue or possibility.
 

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« Reply #3260 on: August 10, 2020, 12:11:49 AM »
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Hominid wrote the following....

The data coming from the radar site came in increments of .088° (1 4096th of a full circle) for azimuth and .25nm for range. If the likely errors were more than two times these values, the designers would simply have decreased the resolution of the data. There is no point in transmitting data to a precision of 1 if the data is only accurate to 8, for example. The direction center at McChord could have smoothed the data to get better accuracy.

But the coordinate data used to plot the FBI plot didn't necessarily take full advantage of the accuracy of the data the airforce had available. The data from which the plot was made was rounded to whole minutes of latitude and longitude. So the actual accuracy of the plots is ±.5 minutes of latitude and longitude. This was the source of the incorrect info about the '72 searchzone map to the effect that the accuracy was ±.5 nautical miles (should have been .5nm for N-S, but .347nm for E-W)



The positions were determined by computations, almost certainly by the airforce 84th radar evaluation squadron, using the coordinates and associated time stamps obtained from the Mt. Hebo site, plus the surveyed location of the Mt. Hebo site and the earth model of the time. The 84th had, and still has, a detachment at McChord and doing such analyses was part of their official functions and still is today. The McChord direction center just used the SAGE system in their normal function of tracking practically everything bigger than a piper or cessna. They did not analyze the system or data from it.

Shutter, if Hominid is still around how about getting him to explain where those numbers above came from?

In the 1971 time frame, radar antennas made about 6 revolutions per minute or about one revolution about ever 10 seconds.  That means the radar would paint an aircraft only about ever 10 seconds and the antenna would rotate about 60 degrees in that time frame.

In that 10 seconds, an airliner with a ground speed of about 180 knots, or 3 nautical miles per minute, would travel about one-half of a nautical mile or about 3000 feet.

The numbers presented above by Hominid are nonsense.  Radar used in tracking aircraft has never been that accurate in tracking aircraft or anything to my knowledge.  I believe Ammerman was recently quoted as saying that his radar display was only accurate to within several miles.

The Portland radar was not involved in the actual tracking of the airliner, that was strictly up to the Seattle ATC Controllers.  The operator apparently just happened to see it on his local display and he probably could not be certain that he was looking at 305 in the first place.

The SAGE system was reportedly not on line that night in the first place.  And all raw radar data used by the FAA and the USAF probably came from the same radar at McChord AFB.

Hom is no longer 'around'.    :congrats:   May he rest in peace.

Its a  :conspiracy:       Some things are beyond R99's grasp.  :o
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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #3261 on: August 10, 2020, 05:40:49 AM »
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Also, take a close look at the 1972 FBI Flight map (White) and compare it to the FBI Flight Path map (Yellow)...they are slightly different.

I've never seen the white version of the flight path. can this be posted? if you are talking about the dropzone maps, those were done by Paul S. and will not be exact to the map made by the Air Force...
 

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« Reply #3262 on: August 10, 2020, 07:57:37 AM »
I have never been able to upload pictures onto the Forum. Not sure why. I receive an error message even though the size of the image is not an issue.
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« Reply #3263 on: August 11, 2020, 06:03:34 AM »
Does a box appear telling you what type of formats to use, jpeg, ping etc.? even though one of those are used?
 

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« Reply #3264 on: October 07, 2020, 06:53:28 AM »
If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.
 

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« Reply #3265 on: October 07, 2020, 01:08:45 PM »
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If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.

The T33 was from the Oregon ANG out of Portland Airbase. It was my unit from 62 to 68 and I was assigned to Refueling maintenance. I am in contact with several retired members of my old unit. I’ll try to see if i can find out who was flying the T 33 out of Portland.
 

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« Reply #3266 on: October 07, 2020, 01:12:59 PM »
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If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.

I believe the F-106 pilots were Randy Plumb and Harve Wallace.
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« Reply #3267 on: October 07, 2020, 03:21:20 PM »
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If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.

The T33 was from the Oregon ANG out of Portland Airbase. It was my unit from 62 to 68 and I was assigned to Refueling maintenance. I am in contact with several retired members of my old unit. I’ll try to see if i can find out who was flying the T 33 out of Portland.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Air National Guard T-33 are identified as Norman Battaglia, Instructor Pilot in the back seat, and Dick Perry, Pilot in the front seat, on page 46 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Army National Guard helicopter are identified as Lt. Col. Gayle Goyins and Major William Gottlieb on page 40 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.
 

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« Reply #3268 on: October 07, 2020, 04:00:32 PM »
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If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.

The T33 was from the Oregon ANG out of Portland Airbase. It was my unit from 62 to 68 and I was assigned to Refueling maintenance. I am in contact with several retired members of my old unit. I’ll try to see if i can find out who was flying the T 33 out of Portland.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Air National Guard T-33 are identified as Norman Battaglia, Instructor Pilot in the back seat, and Dick Perry, Pilot in the front seat, on page 46 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Army National Guard helicopter are identified as Lt. Col. Gayle Goyins and Major William Gottlieb on page 40 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.
Thanks Robert !
A Classmate of mine told me the retired pilots and him meet fairly regularly for breakfast or lunch. I’ll throw those names to my friend and see if any of them are still around and if he knows them. It would be a hoot if they were still around and I could get together with  them especially the T 33 pilots !
Of course it’s probably not happening right now because of the Pandemic.
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« Reply #3269 on: October 07, 2020, 06:15:38 PM »
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If this hasn't been covered before ... does anyone know the names of the F-106 pilots? Over at the F-106 facebook page, there's a post that one of them was Roy Keyt of the 318th FIS (now deceased). Another post at the F-106 forum mentions Russ Weber (or Webber) of the 84th FIS out of Hamilton AFB.

The T33 was from the Oregon ANG out of Portland Airbase. It was my unit from 62 to 68 and I was assigned to Refueling maintenance. I am in contact with several retired members of my old unit. I’ll try to see if i can find out who was flying the T 33 out of Portland.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Air National Guard T-33 are identified as Norman Battaglia, Instructor Pilot in the back seat, and Dick Perry, Pilot in the front seat, on page 46 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.

The two pilots aboard the Oregon Army National Guard helicopter are identified as Lt. Col. Gayle Goyins and Major William Gottlieb on page 40 of Ralph Himmelsbach's book.
Major Norman Battaglia passed away in 2018 and is buried in Willamette National Cemetery close to where my Mother lies.