Weather isn’t necessarily the issue. How well one is protected against the elements is the issue. People have died from exposure in 60 degree weather. All it takes is a three degree drop in body temperature to experience slowed reaction time and confusion.

If the temperature was 40 degrees and wet and Cooper was traveling at high speed in the dark falling in a business suit and loafers, then he would have been at far greater risk for hypothermia than a professional jumper with an insulated outfit, gloves, boots, goggles, and helmet.

I don’t think that’s a particularly provocative thing to say.

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So I am watching this show on YouTube that is based on Richard Floyd McCoy being DB Cooper.  Some of them are hell bent it was him.  It sure looked like a copy cat job but they said he could not have known that DB wrote the demands on the same type of form McCoy used?  I wonder how he could have made it to Vegas but I guess he could have gotten a ride or had a car hidden had he made it out of the woods quickly.  A bit of a tall order given the weather.  So do you all have evidence that it could not have been him?

So this show says 4 weeks ago but much of it is from the show with the late Robert Stack from Unsolved Mysteries.  So it was perhaps put together recently?  By some other nobody fly by night that wants a piece of the action.

I’m once again humored by your comment about the weather ! You said “ A bit of a tall order considering the weather “. I’ve lived in Portland most of me life. I delivered mail in Portland for 28 years always an outdoor walking route ! I lived in Portland on Nov 24, 1971. The weather that day was as typical normal as it could possibly have been. Check the weather report for that day ! There was NO snow or ice ! There was NO strong wind ! The temperature was exactly within the typical temperature for that day !The precipitation was like .19 !  Don’t get fooled and caught up in a bunch of BS stories ! I remember the day well ! The FBI probably would love to exaggerate the weather as a fierce stormy day as their inability to solve the crime is embarrassing to them ! They want him dead in the jump !

I made it a point to be in Portland/Vancouver in mid-November 2009 (I think it was) to see what the weather was like.  As I remember it, the temperature was in the mid-40s ever day and night, and it rained off and on ever day I was there.

Kermit and Haggar are right, there is nothing in the actual measured weather data to suggest that it was stormy during the hijacking.

Robert your experience in November was pretty much dead on ! Also the temperature on Nov 24, 1971 was 46 degrees at 7 pm and 44 degrees at 10 Pm ! Now if any of you spent much time in Oregon or Washington fishing or Hunting, you would realize that keeping warm and comfortable in this typical weather is no big deal. I mentioned I delivered mail in far colder and stayed pretty warm in minus 40 wind chill in the High altitudes of the Wallowa Mountains ! What’s the key ? Wear Wool ! Check out the heating qualities of wool in wet weather ! Nobody knows for sure what Cooper was wearing underneath ? Also a wool cap, socks and gloves could easily fit in that bag he brought along ! Why do you think skiers wear wool in Oregon and Washington ? Same for Letter Carriers ! If you get wet, wool sure helps here in the Pacific NW.

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So I am watching this show on YouTube that is based on Richard Floyd McCoy being DB Cooper.  Some of them are hell bent it was him.  It sure looked like a copy cat job but they said he could not have known that DB wrote the demands on the same type of form McCoy used?  I wonder how he could have made it to Vegas but I guess he could have gotten a ride or had a car hidden had he made it out of the woods quickly.  A bit of a tall order given the weather.  So do you all have evidence that it could not have been him?

So this show says 4 weeks ago but much of it is from the show with the late Robert Stack from Unsolved Mysteries.  So it was perhaps put together recently?  By some other nobody fly by night that wants a piece of the action.

I’m once again humored by your comment about the weather ! You said “ A bit of a tall order considering the weather “. I’ve lived in Portland most of me life. I delivered mail in Portland for 28 years always an outdoor walking route ! I lived in Portland on Nov 24, 1971. The weather that day was as typical normal as it could possibly have been. Check the weather report for that day ! There was NO snow or ice ! There was NO strong wind ! The temperature was exactly within the typical temperature for that day !The precipitation was like .19 !  Don’t get fooled and caught up in a bunch of BS stories ! I remember the day well ! The FBI probably would love to exaggerate the weather as a fierce stormy day as their inability to solve the crime is embarrassing to them ! They want him dead in the jump !

I made it a point to be in Portland/Vancouver in mid-November 2009 (I think it was) to see what the weather was like.  As I remember it, the temperature was in the mid-40s ever day and night, and it rained off and on ever day I was there.

Kermit and Haggar are right, there is nothing in the actual measured weather data to suggest that it was stormy during the hijacking.

Robert your experience in November was pretty much dead on ! Also the temperature on Nov 24, 1971 was 46 degrees at 7 pm and 44 degrees at 10 Pm ! Now if any of you spent much time in Oregon or Washington fishing or Hunting, you would realize that keeping warm and comfortable in this typical weather is no big deal. I mentioned I delivered mail in far colder and stayed pretty warm in minus 40 wind chill in the High altitudes of the Wallowa Mountains ! What’s the key ? Wear Wool ! Check out the heating qualities of wool in wet weather ! Nobody knows for sure what Cooper was wearing underneath ? Also a wool cap, socks and gloves could easily fit in that bag he brought along ! Why do you think skiers wear wool in Oregon and Washington ? Same for Letter Carriers ! If you get wet, wool sure helps here in the Pacific NW.

Testimony like this should be preserved and brought out anytime anyone talks about it being a huge storm, or ice, or below zero, etc. 

The easiest thing for Cooper to do to stay warm would be to wrap himself in a parachute.  Lighting a fire would work too, but that would have been a bit risky.

During the filming of our History Channel show we featured a survivalist. He was in the field with us on what were conditions very similar to those faced by DBC. He stated that surviving would have been quite easy if DBC wasn't injured. He also stated that the biggest threat was hypothermia which was easily combated by continued walking. Therefore, as long as DBC could walk and continued to walk, he should have easily been able to stay warm and survive.

I am convinced he made it.  If he had perished, much would have been found.   His remains, clothes (with the help of the dogs), and not to mention those shiny red cylinders, and a ton of $20 dollar bills. I just think the late FBI agent, God rest his soul, was just trying to downplay how well DB Cooper had planned this.  Calling him a common criminal when he was anything but that.  He was way ahead of the game given the year, 1971.  More were using guns and robbing Brinks trucks and banks.  This one is for the ages. If anyone on the list is him, I would pick Rackstraw but I believe its been stated he was too young to be DB?

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So I am watching this show on YouTube that is based on Richard Floyd McCoy being DB Cooper.  Some of them are hell bent it was him.  It sure looked like a copy cat job but they said he could not have known that DB wrote the demands on the same type of form McCoy used?  I wonder how he could have made it to Vegas but I guess he could have gotten a ride or had a car hidden had he made it out of the woods quickly.  A bit of a tall order given the weather.  So do you all have evidence that it could not have been him?

So this show says 4 weeks ago but much of it is from the show with the late Robert Stack from Unsolved Mysteries.  So it was perhaps put together recently?  By some other nobody fly by night that wants a piece of the action.

I’m once again humored by your comment about the weather ! You said “ A bit of a tall order considering the weather “. I’ve lived in Portland most of me life. I delivered mail in Portland for 28 years always an outdoor walking route ! I lived in Portland on Nov 24, 1971. The weather that day was as typical normal as it could possibly have been. Check the weather report for that day ! There was NO snow or ice ! There was NO strong wind ! The temperature was exactly within the typical temperature for that day !The precipitation was like .19 !  Don’t get fooled and caught up in a bunch of BS stories ! I remember the day well ! The FBI probably would love to exaggerate the weather as a fierce stormy day as their inability to solve the crime is embarrassing to them ! They want him dead in the jump !

I made it a point to be in Portland/Vancouver in mid-November 2009 (I think it was) to see what the weather was like.  As I remember it, the temperature was in the mid-40s ever day and night, and it rained off and on ever day I was there.

Kermit and Haggar are right, there is nothing in the actual measured weather data to suggest that it was stormy during the hijacking.

Robert your experience in November was pretty much dead on ! Also the temperature on Nov 24, 1971 was 46 degrees at 7 pm and 44 degrees at 10 Pm ! Now if any of you spent much time in Oregon or Washington fishing or Hunting, you would realize that keeping warm and comfortable in this typical weather is no big deal. I mentioned I delivered mail in far colder and stayed pretty warm in minus 40 wind chill in the High altitudes of the Wallowa Mountains ! What’s the key ? Wear Wool ! Check out the heating qualities of wool in wet weather ! Nobody knows for sure what Cooper was wearing underneath ? Also a wool cap, socks and gloves could easily fit in that bag he brought along ! Why do you think skiers wear wool in Oregon and Washington ? Same for Letter Carriers ! If you get wet, wool sure helps here in the Pacific NW.

Testimony like this should be preserved and brought out anytime anyone talks about it being a huge storm, or ice, or below zero, etc. 

The easiest thing for Cooper to do to stay warm would be to wrap himself in a parachute.  Lighting a fire would work too, but that would have been a bit risky.

During the filming of our History Channel show we featured a survivalist. He was in the field with us on what were conditions very similar to those faced by DBC. He stated that surviving would have been quite easy if DBC wasn't injured. He also stated that the biggest threat was hypothermia which was easily combated by continued walking. Therefore, as long as DBC could walk and continued to walk, he should have easily been able to stay warm and survive.

I am convinced he made it.  If he had perished, much would have been found.   His remains, clothes (with the help of the dogs), and not to mention those shiny red cylinders, and a ton of $20 dollar bills. I just think the late FBI agent, God rest his soul, was just trying to downplay how well DB Cooper had planned this.  Calling him a common criminal when he was anything but that.  He was way ahead of the game given the year, 1971.  More were using guns and robbing Brinks trucks and banks.  This one is for the ages. If anyone on the list is him, I would pick Rackstraw but I believe its been stated he was too young to be DB?

Cooper probably got lost in the "white noise" of random clutter. 

There was one reject suspect that had a background in the nuclear industry. Not until Tom's work did that even become relevant, years after the fact.   

I posted 302s about this guy months ago but that got swept away quickly in the white noise here...