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Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
Chaucer:
New blog post from Dr. Edwards:
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Good analysis as always. I don’t agree with all of Dr. Edwards conclusions here. I think he puts the drop zone too far south.
That said, I think a deep dive into the comms from the ~8:20 time frame is now critical to determining when exactly Cooper exited the aircraft.
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Good analysis as always. I don’t agree with all of Dr. Edwards conclusions here. I think he puts the drop zone too far south.
That said, I think a deep dive into the comms from the ~8:20 time frame is now critical to determining when exactly Cooper exited the aircraft.
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Chaucer, I must disagree with you. Dr. Edwards doesn't put the drop zone anywhere. He just points out that Paul Soderlind of NWA put the drop zone all over the place and that Soderlind then proceeds to disappear from the planet. Dr. Edwards also asks the question as to why Soderlind goes missing in action and why his name is still redacted from the Cooper documents despite his death 22 years ago.
Perhaps a deep dive into Soderlind's involvement in the hijacking would be more appropriate.
The 8:11/8:12 PM PST period is the generally accepted time for Cooper jumping and the airliner was several miles north of Portland at that time.
Further, at 8:18 PM PST the airliner reported that it was 23 DME miles south of the Portland (now Battleground) VORTAC. And that puts it on the western edge of V-23 at that time.
The above times and locations are firm. There is no problem with them.
Chaucer:
Recently, Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100.
I have included a link to some photos I took.
Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.
I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.
Here is think:
Recently, a long time contributor to the Vortex who is known online as Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100 - the same model of Flight 305.
I have included a link to some photos I took.
Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.
I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.
Here is think:
Recently, a long time contributor to the Vortex who is known online as Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100 - the same model of Flight 305.
I have included a link to some photos I took.
Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.
I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.
Here is think:
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Hopefully, Shutter will provide his insight.
Chaucer:
For the last few months, I have been working on updating Sluggo's famous NORJAK timeline. It's finally completed, and I am happy to share it with you.
The credit for this should go to W. Wayne Walker aka "Sluggo", an old school poster on the old Dropzone forum. He created the first comprehensive timeline over ten years ago. However, he did not have access to information that has become available to us in the years since. I merely updated his timeline with this new information and made it a bit more user friendly. Special thanks goes to olemisscub who assisted with fact-checking and proofreading.
My hope is that this chronology becomes as indispensible to us as Sluggo's was to the previous generation of researchers.
All suggestions and criticisms are welcome. Here it is:
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snowmman:
Hi Chaucer.
well there were many other events happening during the time period, just not associated with the plane.
to really flesh out a chronology, it'd be nice to have time periods for parachute acquistion and delivery and money acquisition and delivery
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