Neither of the main rigs had D Rings for attaching a reserve. How do you think he fastened the reserve chute if he took it?

You are right, using a reserve to lower yourself from a tree landing is taught to smoke jumpers.

In my skydiver training they advised us to just wait until help arrived if we landed in a tree, that trying to go down your deployed reserve lines could end up in a bad fall.

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If the riser attachment fittings are still on the Amboy chute risers they could tell us a lot about what kind of rig it may have been attached to.

I don't think it was Cooper's chute but I haven't  seen it up close, just photos and descriptions. Looks like twill material to me and therefore unlikely to have been used in a 1971 setting as an FAA legal emergency chute. Trusting your life to twill when good ripstop C-9s were available dirt cheap would have been insane. Airworthy C 9s were super cheap back then. I saw a bunch of them (looked like about 100 canopies) for $25 each, in perfect condition with lines and risers, at a University of Calif surplus sale in Richmond CA in the early 70s. I have no idea what UC was doing with them. Normal C-9 pricing back then was between $75 and $150 depending on who was selling them

Cossey was a joker about Norjack chutes, so you can't take everything he said as a fact. Bruce doesn't think you can take ANYTHING Cossey said as a fact.

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377  You say: "NB8 with 28 ft C9 surplus canopy."

That is my vote Too! based upon Norm Haden's description of the chute he provided. Or DB could have cut four one ft chunks of parachute cord to tie the "front" chute on to the NB8 carrier that he used.

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[ Bruce doesn't think you can take ANYTHING Cossey said as a fact.

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Bruce seems to want to throw the baby out with the bath water ?

377  You say:   "Bruce, how about querying Norman whether he used pure titanium in his machine shop and whether he also used bismuth (sometimes contained in machining lubricants)."

I say all the things found on DB's tie were available from the Scrap Tub Skids around the outside of the M & P Lab (Materials and Processing Lab) just below Sheridan's Office 2nd floor of the 9-101 Building at Boeing. That is where DB/Sheridan would have picked up the things found on the DB tie. Looking into the tub skids, his tie would have fallen into scrap (as did mine) and picked-up all that was found on the tie. This would have been the only place at Boeing where all the things would have been found and in the N.W. too! The things on the DB tie all point directly at where Sheridan worked at Boeing. End of the story and is very good evidence in my mind.

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