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Book Discussion About DB Cooper
Bruce A. Smith:
This is a new Robert. Lives in Eastern Europe. Bulgaria?
He called me about 4-5 years to get the general lay of the land in Cooper World. His book is being published in the UK. Comes out soon, and the editor says she wants to send me a copy so I can review it.
Dr. Edwards has posted some of his findings - I forget where - but I wasn't all that impressed. He is heavy into statistical analysis. Kind of reminded me of What's His Name, PLF Safecracker ?, and his video series on this angle. Bored the hell outta me.
Snow, our beloved Robert99 is a cranky, really old bastard who lives in Arizona. He's older than me, so he's old....
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new book due 11/24/21
Robert H. Edwards
D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance Hardcover – November 24, 2021
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This book looks at the case from the perspective of a mathematician and pilot. It uses previously unexamined data and original-source documents, combined with the tools of statistics, aeronautics, and meteorology, to show where and how the FBI could resume the search and possibly find out at last who "D. B. Cooper" really was.
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Dudeman17, Snowmman, and everyone else. With apologies to Bruce Smith and other Cooper writers, I strongly suspect that the above book by Dr. Edwards will be the defining publication on the Cooper hijacking. He knows how to do research and he has indeed developed original sources and information that most of us on this site have never heard of before or perhaps even imagined existed.
Dr. Edwards is a poster here on Shutter's site and has also posted on DropZone. Dudeman17, refer to my recent PM's to you. Recently, Snowmman posted something from an unidentified site that was made several years ago by "Robert Isaac Harker" which happens to be Dr. Edwards motion picture screen name. So he is a very multi-talented person. He is probably on a first-name basis with everyone in the FBI's FOIA office.
Dr. Edwards lives in England but he has lived in various places around the world including the USA, Canada, Far East, Middle East, Central Europe, etc...
Amazon gives the publication date as November 24, 2021 which, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the hijacking. Dr. Edwards promised me a complimentary copy of the book a few months ago. November 24th happens to also be my birthday and this will probably be the best birthday present that I have received in a long, long time. ;D
Amazon lists the pre-publication price as $27.00 and if you are not one of the several people on Shutter's site that have complimentary copies coming, I would suggest that you pre-order it now.
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new book due 11/24/21
Robert H. Edwards
D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance Hardcover – November 24, 2021
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This book looks at the case from the perspective of a mathematician and pilot. It uses previously unexamined data and original-source documents, combined with the tools of statistics, aeronautics, and meteorology, to show where and how the FBI could resume the search and possibly find out at last who "D. B. Cooper" really was.
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Dudeman17, Snowmman, and everyone else. With apologies to Bruce Smith and other Cooper writers, I strongly suspect that the above book by Dr. Edwards will be the defining publication on the Cooper hijacking. He knows how to do research and he has indeed developed original sources and information that most of us on this site have never heard of before or perhaps even imagined existed.
Dr. Edwards is a poster here on Shutter's site and has also posted on DropZone. Dudeman17, refer to my recent PM's to you. Recently, Snowmman posted something from an unidentified site that was made several years ago by "Robert Isaac Harker" which happens to be Dr. Edwards motion picture screen name. So he is a very multi-talented person. He is probably on a first-name basis with everyone in the FBI's FOIA office.
Dr. Edwards lives in England but he has lived in various places around the world including the USA, Canada, Far East, Middle East, Central Europe, etc...
Amazon gives the publication date as November 24, 2021 which, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the hijacking. Dr. Edwards promised me a complimentary copy of the book a few months ago. November 24th happens to also be my birthday and this will probably be the best birthday present that I have received in a long, long time. ;D
Amazon lists the pre-publication price as $27.00 and if you are not one of the several people on Shutter's site that have complimentary copies coming, I would suggest that you pre-order it now.
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So, based on your effusive praise, I guess we are to assume that the author concludes that the plane flew over Tena?
snowmman:
sounds good Robert99.
I was just surprised at "previously unexamined data" because it's hard to see what that could be.
and although I won't blame him, I really hate when people tout "math" and "statistics" to try to claim validity upfront.
But I'll read it. I doubt "math" is gonna save the day, because I don't know any math that hasn't been used already. But I guess we'll see.
I don't think anyone's background really applys in the Cooper thing. Too many issues. Very quickly everyone veers into speculating with data that doesn't prove things as strongly as they hope.
I can imagine writing a book that focuses on all the math and other issues that make the case unresolvable. But the idea that he can show where the FBI should resume it's search? and be more right than any other theory? I guess we'll see.
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Register or LoginDid Danny select his moniker from a comic book? Maybe. Maybe not. I think the latter. If true, though, it's a hellava coincidence.
As for Danny being a Canuck, I feel he was not. To wit: the "negotiable American currency" quote is from a cockpit teletype thingie from 305 to NWO. Is that what Danny actually said? Maybe. Maybe not. Again, I opt for the latter.
If Danny spoke in such intellectualized and arcane language, I think Tina would have picked up on it. Her quote in the Philly-based debrief in a 302 has her stating simply, "he wanted cash." That sounds like the Danny Boy I have come to know and love.
Did a favorable exchange rate motivate a Canadian to cross the border and steal a US jetliner so he could get American buckaroos? Maybe. But I strongly think other, more compelling factors would have guided his thinking.
Look at it this way - flip the premise. Would an American want to cross the border into Canada to jack a plane because he saw some advantage? I wouldn't. There are too many Canadian slang terms that could trip me up along the way, such as someone asking me if a want a "touk?" I had a girlfriend do that on a cold day and I looked at her like she had two heads. Then she explained it was a wool ski cap.
Or someone saying, "Yo, dude, you dropped your toonie." Or shouting "Arrete," while I cross a street in traffic - lots of ways to out a Yankee north o' the border, which may be why those who fly the red maple leaf have turned me down twice for immigration - once to Quebec and once to BC.
Capice?
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If no one has already checked this, I just read that in 1971 the Canadian and US dollar were almost at par: $1 US = .99 CDN. (In more recent decades, this has been rare; in fact, certain sectors here depend on the Canadian dollar not getting too high, strange as that sounds - ex. US movie companies are more likely to film here if our dollar's lower. We were at par again a few years back, I believe, and it was a mixed bag.) So there would have been no advantage to going over the border for it. I don't really have an opinion on if he chose his name from the comic books. It would be a helluva coincidence, but it's also a helluva common name. :) I saw a Cannon from the same year, pre-jump, with a character called Dan Cooper. He could simply have picked it out of a phone book. I also have lived in Canada all my life minus 3 years, and I had never heard of the Dan Cooper comics before this case. And we did have comics in French class, mostly TinTin and Asterix.
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Thats interesting! Never saw the comic .... what part of Canada did you live in. I love Canada btw. I have strong family ties/history there.
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I've lived all over - Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec, BC, Ontario. The only part I haven't checked out is the Prairies. Currently in Hamilton, near Toronto. Where do your family live?
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