I thought I read somewhere that the CIA link was a dead end. And also, that the Boeing link was investigated and ended up being a dead end. Ckret on DZ maybe?
Isn't it possible he got lucky with the stairs? It might not even be dumb luck, why would you design a lock for those stairs when only an idiot would try to use them during a flight?
Bruce: I accept that Cooper probably had some source of knowledge on the 727. As mentioned earlier, planning something like this in eleven days would require a lot of foreknowledge since it would take a long time for a layman to get all this information, or engineer it. I'm playing around. Devil's advocate; whatever. What I was really interested in was finding out if other aircraft had a 15 degree flap setting. As Cooper guys, we all ask the same questions, analyze the same fifteen data points, and circle around Tina's bar like it's Prometheus offering fire. [This is the reason I like having a conjecture/dumb question thread, it offers a rational place to throw stuff like this out there.]