For those interested in Cooper bailing around the Orchards area. the reason could be the report from the F-106 dart. the pilot claims an airport with skydiving was near by. that airport would be Scholl's. a sectional map shows a parachute as the pilot mentions in the 302's. according to the flight path it fly's directly over Scholl's at the 8:15 time frame.
I just find this document remarkable for several reasons. Sluggo earmarked Orchards but he never explained why, except for Sluggo's revision of the time stamps...
It would be nice to know what the basis for the F-106 pilot's remark was: overheard communications, engaged in communications with someone related to the jump, ....... any and all reasons why this pilot would have any knowledge of the jump matter. Was he still trailing 305 when Cooper jumped?
I have never forgotten one of Sluggos' posts at DZ when the issue of Orchards came up. Out of the blue Wayne asked Crket something like ' have you guys been digging there - where?' Ckret replied something like: 'lets talk about this off line'. And there the matter died! Nobody followed their exchange up. I finally emailed Wayne and asked: "What is going on? FBI digging at Orchards? Can you tell us more". Wayne answered and said ... 'in the fullness of time, as this develops ...'.
If you recall this morphed into Sluggo making a few posts suggesting people should dig up graves in cemeteries around Orchards! That Cooper might be there in an unmarked grave! People asked if Wayne was serious. In due course Wayne dropped the whole matter after a lot of kidding ....... but I have never forgotten this. I always wondered what the basis for Sluggo's sudden interest in Orchards was ...... I never got a satisfactory reply and the matter died at DZ.