Just spoke with a couple staffers from the Travel Channel about a DB Cooper project. They sounded serious, and say they are coming to Cooper Country for a shoot for about a week - end of August to early September. Themes and angles sound a bit up in the air. I advocated for a "Cooper jump," as I think it would be great TV drama to follow a guy down the stairs, in the dark with night-vision goggles on, and get a second-by-second feel for what it was like. It might be time for all those bad-ass skydivers I've been hearing so much about over the years to begin gearing up and putting their game face on...
...any SOG guys out there who would like one more ride at the rodeo???
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That's all that I know, but I really do like the Cooper jump idea. For me, I don't need an exact Cooper jump, ie: 727, Ariel, 8 pm and rain blowing sideways, etc. But I do need a stairway dangling into a 200mph slipstream somewhere in wet, chilly WA at night. If it's gotta be the equine meadows at the Clark County fairgrounds to satisfy FAA/insurance companies/legal beagles, etc., so be it. If it's not a 727, then something similar, like an MD-80 or DC9. Or one of those tailgate jobs I see the Seal Team 6 guys use in the movies.
An added bonus would seeing a pair of F-106s tailing it, and seeing how and why it couldn't track the skydiver. Wouldn't you want to see what a fighter pilot has to do to fly a 106 at 200mph for a hundred miles or so? I'd love to see those curly-cues in the sky. I think it would make for great TV.
Also, I gotta see a 22-pound bag of 20s tied on his waist. Then stick the spare reserve, briefcase, bomb, and burlap bag somewhere. Bundled? Tethered? Wired with tracking devices? Something. Where did all that stuff go? How could it be tracked. Or entombed in the earth, to satisfy one scenario. But I want to see it all go somewhere.
Added attraction: how about a re-enactment of the stuff Soderlind was looking at - his radar screens, FAA transcripts, etc., that he used to plot LZ-A.
