Au contrair, Charlie could jump.
Colonel Vinh was bad ass for example.

Good story about Vinh getting snagged under an airplane here in a bat suit. He did 3 bat suit jumps.   Saved by nail scissors!!
From article in the 1971 Sport Parachutist magazine (attached the article pages)


Vinh has tried all sorts of methods of free falling and takes the greatest pleasure in showing visitors a photograph of him when he was a 'playboy'.

This was before his third, and also last, jump with batman type extensions on his suit. On this occasion, complete with Press entourage in the aircraft, he managed to get hooked up with the underside of the fuselage. Part of his suit snared itself, and instead of going down, he just disappeared underneath the aircraft.

Fortunately for him the jump master had watched the direction in which he had vanished and took the troubie to lean out of the door and look underneath to see just where he was. The sight that met his eyes was of a whiteclad body revolving round and round like a top, with two large eyeballs poking out of its head. The situation was finally saved by the British girl photographer who had her nail scissors in her handbag.
These were eventually used by the the jump master, who leaning out of the aircraft door to reach underneath the fuselage, managed to cut Vinh loose. a certain amount of panic had been caused amongst the Press by what had happened and one of them had even suggested that the pilot ought to land.

This would not have done Colonel Vinh much good !

McKay was crew chief on this famous Pathfinder Caribou. Picture of the crew at the link below
Kenneth E. McNamara provided this info and may have a contact with McKay (if alive?)


I was a Direction-Finding (DF) operator on the PATHFINDER Caribou RCV-2B,  Tail No. 62-4147 assigned to the 509th Army Security Agency (ASA),  146th Aviation Battalion,  3rd Radio Research Group in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967.   I recall this additional information to what Richard M. McCarthy described in his account  below  of the Caribou's battle damage,  as follows.
 
On Sept. 20, 1966,  our PATHFINDER Caribou 62-4147 was performing an intelligence intercept operation over North Vietnam,  slightly north of the DMZ,  at about 5,000 ft. altitude when we started to take ground fire from an NVA gun emplacement situated on a 2,000 ft. mountain.   From my DF station I looked out the window and saw tracers coming up from the ground between me and the wingtip;  I knew that usually meant a tracer every fifth round,  so there were a lot of machinegun rounds coming our way.   A 37mm anti-aircraft hit our tail;  the pilot immediately banked towards the DMZ,  was able to skillfully turn the plane without rudder function compensating by alternating the prop pitch,  and then landed all of us safely without any combat injury on the PSP-runway at  U.S. base Dong Ha,  a few kilometers below the DMZ.   Below are pictures of our Caribou,  crew,  battle damage,  and "wounded heart" painted on our aircraft by the Crew Chief to indicate battle damage.

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PATHFINDER was a one-of-a-kind HF DF system installed in a DeHavillandRCV-2B Caribou serial number 62-4147 (c/n #82). This aircraft was also assigned to the 146th Avn Co (RR) until it was turned over to the USAF in Apr 67. This information courtesy of Dean Haskins who went on to say that the aircraft had battle damage and was turned over to the USAF in 1967 and was eventually transferred to South Vietnam. Robert L. Taylor was kind enough to provide a photo of this battle-damaged aircraft. Note the pre-1962 US Army designation of "RCV-2B" which should have changed to "RC-7B" in that year when the basic aircraft was redesignated as the C-7A/B. Further note that the designator "RC-7B" has recently been applied to the DeHavilland DHC-7 which is used as the platform for ARL-M.
Richard G. McCarthy had the following to say about this system: "The Caribou was a good system.  My memory is a bit hazy about some aspects of the system like how many ops it carried.  I seem to remember two pilots, usually a crew chief, a TA guy who was relegated to working the DECCA Nav system and (I think) three ops.  Two intercept op and one senior op who was also the DF op. It was noisy like all Caribous and due to the weight it was carrying even slower in the climb than most.  I can't remember if it flew the standard four hour mission or stayed up longer.  Everything that was painted OD and flew at low altitudes was hot.  The Boo had the advantage of space so you could at least stand up occasionally.  Many times the tailgate was left up for cooling, but this was stopped when one of the PHYLLIS ANN crews (EC-47) lost some COMUS Pad pages out of a open door.  Other than the Master Op and TA guy crews were flexible.  I flew on it a few times but didn't like it, not because of the system but because of the similarity to field station work.  The most disconcerting thing about the Boo was due to the long fuselage you really got slammed around when it was working a target.  When we had to turn the Boo over to the Air Force in late 66, all of the mission gear was stripped out ot it and put in a CONEX container.  Someone probably  bought a complete set of mission gear at a government auction years later, and is probably still trying to figure out what it is."

Ingram vs FBI , NWA , Globe Indemnity settlement 1986:

'The $500 reward Brian Ingram received from Northwest Orient Airlines when he found the money.... will be returned as one of the conditions in the final settlement.'

So Ingram actually was given a $500 reward, not from the FBI but from NWA. He had to return it as a condition of the final money settlement.

Under the proposed judgment, which must be approved by U.S. District Judge Helen Frye, the federal government would keep $280 or 14 bills for use as evidence should anyone be prosecuted in the unsolved 1971 hijacking in which $200,000 was paid as ransom. Ingram and Globe Indemnity would split the remaining $5,520 equally. $2760 each or 138 bills each.

Royal Globe Indemnity (of London/NYC) for its part, refused to settle with NWA and was sued and lost to NWA in Federal Court In Minneapolis in 1976.
   

How about the NWA/Delta flight from Las Vegas, I believe, a few years ago where the two pilots were so engrossed in their discussion of pension plans and Google-ing on their laptops that they flew over their destination - Minneapolis - by about 80 miles and had to double-back.

One of the first applications/need for OCR analysis procedures occurred in the 1940s during WWII with the need to develop written 'test instruments' and 'scoring devices' or machines related to the testing of millions of people after induction into military service. Primary developers in this field were Ken Stroud, Carl Seashore, Paul Bloomers, EF Lindquist . . . at the University of Iowa. The development of computer facilitated OCR was basic to these programs taught and developed in many universities at the time, especially at SUI.

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It was inevitable that once the FBI began releasing its 302s that OCR would be used by somebody in the scanning and word/phrase sorting of these documents, for any truths in the DB Cooper Hijacking case. FJ's use of OCR attracted the attention of Andrade and Snowmman. FJ posted commenting in 2019:

November 30, 2019
  On 11/30/2019 at 1:41 PM, Andrade1812 said: R99 said the same thing, the USAF tag rules it out. Felt nice while it lasted...
"First thing I do is OCR any new FBI file, there is now far too much info to keep track of.. Stick them all in one folder and easily search for relevant info..  Georger can't find FBI FOIA #43..  never trust anything from such a inept sleuth. For everyone else. Here. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login /d.b.-cooper-part-43-of-43/view"

Georger, I agree with you that OCRs have been around for a long, long time.  I have never had anything to do with OCRs but I remember that around 1970 the Federal Government started requiring that some documents be submitted in OCR readable form.   

But would you please translate the above from the Greek.  What is FJ talking about?  And what did Andrade, Snowmman, and I do that attracted FJ's quoted remarks?

must answer tonight - already late for something ...

I don't know why georger is down on ocr.
Nowdays, modern ocr creates another text layer on top of the image layer in a pdf.
that way, it's easy to see errors.

I use tesseract (not adobe) for ocr of the fbi docs. When the fbi docs first came out, I was using ABBY Finereader (software from guys in Russia...they created it (partly) to to recreate russian official forms etc from paper copies)

then pdfgrep to look for stuff.
all linux stuff. (open source)

It's amazing the power of free software and cheap computers and fast storage nowadays.

Still processing serial numbers for fbi bill list. took a break from that for a bit, but chugging along.