Titanium

Ever since the History Channel docu, I get at least one phone call or email a week from newbies - armchair sleuths who are absolutely committed to the Hunt for DB Cooper. Bill Rollins is one of them and he is posting here farily regularly.

Another one is a fellow named Travis, and he is HOT on the trail of titanium. He is investigating Oremet vigorously and has a suspect that he is pursuing, who is still alive, apparently. Travis has done a LOT of research on titanium and its processing activity in the 1971 period, and I've encouraged him to post his findings here. He says he's a bit leery of joining the fray, as we are a little too rough. Ahem...

But here is some of the information that Travis has shared with me:

1. Oremet, located in Albany, OR, was one of five titanium processing facilities in Oregon in 1971. The others are Wah Chang, REM, Zirtech, and TiLine. All had business dealing with Boeing, the SST, NASA, and the USG. They all had involvement in top-secret projects.

2. In addition, titanium was also used in two facilities in Ohio: RMI and Titanium MetalCorp of America. The latter had a sub-division called Timet, which was located in Henderson, Nevada.

3. The Bureau of Mines had a titanium research plant in Boulder City, Nevada.

4. Travis says that there was a close relationship between Albany, Henderson, and Ohio.

I haven't followed-up on any of this to check whether any of this is true, but I figured I share it with y'all. I applaud Travis for the work he is doing, and hope he will join us here eventually. I have also encouraged him to read all of the usual sources of info (GG, Calame and Rhodes, me, Sluggo, et. al.), as he has a narrow view of the case because if his limited exposure to all of the information and conflicting data.

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Titanium

Ever since the History Channel docu, I get at least one phone call or email a week from newbies - armchair sleuths who are absolutely committed to the Hunt for DB Cooper. Bill Rollins is one of them and he is posting here farily regularly.

Another one is a fellow named Travis, and he is HOT on the trail of titanium. He is investigating Oremet vigorously and has a suspect that he is pursuing, who is still alive, apparently. Travis has done a LOT of research on titanium and its processing activity in the 1971 period, and I've encouraged him to post his findings here. He says he's a bit leery of joining the fray, as we are a little too rough. Ahem...

But here is some of the information that Travis has shared with me:

1. Oremet, located in Albany, OR, was one of five titanium processing facilities in Oregon in 1971. The others are Wah Chang, REM, Zirtech, and TiLine. All had business dealing with Boeing, the SST, NASA, and the USG. They all had involvement in top-secret projects.

2. In addition, titanium was also used in two facilities in Ohio: RMI and Titanium MetalCorp of America. The latter had a sub-division called Timet, which was located in Henderson, Nevada.

3. The Bureau of Mines had a titanium research plant in Boulder City, Nevada.

4. Travis says that there was a close relationship between Albany, Henderson, and Ohio.

I haven't followed-up on any of this to check whether any of this is true, but I figured I share it with y'all. I applaud Travis for the work he is doing, and hope he will join us here eventually. I have also encouraged him to read all of the usual sources of info (GG, Calame and Rhodes, me, Sluggo, et. al.), as he has a narrow view of the case because if his limited exposure to all of the information and conflicting data.

Very interesting. As I understood, the particular type of titanium found on the tie was unalloyed, which was quite rare in 1971. And I recall that there were very few facilities in America that were using unalloyed titanium at that time (like fewer than 10).

Did Travis make that distinction between alloyed and unalloyed in his findings? He lists 5 in Oregon alone and I was of the understanding the total was not much more than that for the entire country at that time.

(please refute my information if any of it is incorrect; this is just what I recall reading somewhere)

I've always been very interested in the titanium, especially as it relates to the SST project and the massive layoffs that ensued in the spring of '71.

Bruce:  When I talked with Tom Kaye in the stairway at the Burke Museum we talked about the findings on the tie being both alloy and pure Titanium. He had jumped  to the wrong conclusion that it could have not been from Boeing as he thought we were only using alloy Titanium in the SST. He was not happy with my telling him he was wrong and how we were working with pure Titanium too (flame spraying it) in the 9-101 building. So, the sleuths had found both types of Titanium (plus other particles) on DB's tie. You need to report these things correctly or it drives me crazy.

Bob Sailshaw
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