Bruce:   I think DB/Sheridan had seen the dummy chute before at Issaquah Skydiving where he took the Boeing Skydiving club and took the dummy to use as a way to get down from any trees he was stuck up in. He learned how to do that as a smoke jumper for the USFS. He knew what he was doing but the hole in his alibi that he was delivering one of his two children as the female Doctor believed that all husbands should deliver their own children. The hole is that not one of his children were born anywhere close to the Nov 24th 1971 Norjak date
Ginger Lucena Peterson was born October 1972 and Sheridan Ramon Peterson was born September 1970 and both in Nepal. DB must have shown the FBI a fake birth certificate with a birth date very close to Norjak's date. Per persopo.com.

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Sheridan is a ready-made career for anyone promoting him as DB Cooper. The future looks good! Sheridan will die just as Duane Weber died, leaving his promotion wide open clear into eternity@! It's a bottomless well of opportunity.     

I agree that the bogus reserve might have been used as a means to descend from a tree top. I'd like to her more about that from guys who have actually had to repel themselves down from a snag.

As for Petey in Nepal, I'd love to know more about his time there. When did he get there; when did he leave? Any records, documentations on those comings and goings? Family accounts? I think we have a lot of work ahead of us in the Petey department.

Let's go places!   

Robert99:   DB might have backed down the Aft Airstair and then pulled the rip cord and let the chute pull him off the stairs rather than doing a free fall and then opening at a lower altitude. That is how cargo chutes open with no free fall. The early opening might have made the shock of opening less and given him more time floating down to earth. Sheridan/DB with his USFS Smoke Jumping experience could have taken the dummy front chute to just help in lowering from a tree if needed. Remember how all the copy cats that followed DB had little problem in making the jump and all survived. Also. when Sheridan dies of old age he will leave behind his book that tells of his "grudge" and his "revenge". Or maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie of it as he has a copy of the book per Sheridan. Remember, Sheridan was an English major and they always dream of writing the "Great American Novel" and "The Idot's Frightfull Laughter" might be the one Sheridan leaves behind.
 
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Robert99:   DB might have backed down the Aft Airstair and then pulled the rip cord and let the chute pull him off the stairs rather than doing a free fall and then opening at a lower altitude. That is how cargo chutes open with no free fall. The early opening might have made the shock of opening less and given him more time floating down to earth. Sheridan/DB with his USFS Smoke Jumping experience could have taken the dummy front chute to just help in lowering from a tree if needed. Remember how all the copy cats that followed DB had little problem in making the jump and all survived. Also. when Sheridan dies of old age he will leave behind his book that tells of his "grudge" and his "revenge". Or maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie of it as he has a copy of the book per Sheridan. Remember, Sheridan was an English major and they always dream of writing the "Great American Novel" and "The Idot's Frightfull Laughter" might be the one Sheridan leaves behind.
 
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If Cooper had pulled the rip cord while standing at the bottom of the stairs, he would have gotten the worst opening shock possible since the airliner was doing about 225 MPH at that point.

If he had done a head first free fall, he would have stabilized at about 180 MPH or less and that would have greatly reduced the opening shock.

All of the Cooper copy cats may have survived but there is no reason to believe that Cooper did, and some very valid reasons for believing that he didn't.

... and no actual data on it one way or the other, unless you take 'nothing ever found' and 'the money at Tena Bar' ... as data points ?

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Robert99:   DB might have backed down the Aft Airstair and then pulled the rip cord and let the chute pull him off the stairs rather than doing a free fall and then opening at a lower altitude. That is how cargo chutes open with no free fall. The early opening might have made the shock of opening less and given him more time floating down to earth. Sheridan/DB with his USFS Smoke Jumping experience could have taken the dummy front chute to just help in lowering from a tree if needed. Remember how all the copy cats that followed DB had little problem in making the jump and all survived. Also. when Sheridan dies of old age he will leave behind his book that tells of his "grudge" and his "revenge". Or maybe Oliver Stone will make a movie of it as he has a copy of the book per Sheridan. Remember, Sheridan was an English major and they always dream of writing the "Great American Novel" and "The Idot's Frightfull Laughter" might be the one Sheridan leaves behind.
 
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If Cooper had pulled the rip cord while standing at the bottom of the stairs, he would have gotten the worst opening shock possible since the airliner was doing about 225 MPH at that point.

If he had done a head first free fall, he would have stabilized at about 180 MPH or less and that would have greatly reduced the opening shock.

All of the Cooper copy cats may have survived but there is no reason to believe that Cooper did, and some very valid reasons for believing that he didn't.

... and no actual data on it one way or the other, unless you take 'nothing ever found' and 'the money at Tena Bar' ... as data points ?

I can't accept the "nothing ever found" as a data point.  But I definitely accept the "money at Tina Bar" and the location where the placard from the stairs was found as data points.

Two data points may not be much to go on, but there is no reason to throw up your hands and quit.  Since the FBI and FAA are going to sit on the complete transcripts from the Seattle ATC covering the flight south while in the Seattle ATC area, I may yet give it a shot to see just how far one can go in this matter with only two data points.

According to Kaye, the tie found on Cooper's seat was worn frequently by someone who worked in an environment where they could pick up certain particles, including the titanium. If Sheridan is Cooper, than we should be able to find photos of him wearing the tie (or at least, as similar as can be implied with old B&W photos).

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...If Cooper had pulled the rip cord while standing at the bottom of the stairs, he would have gotten the worst opening shock possible since the airliner was doing about 225 MPH at that point....

R99, I believe the aircraft was traveling around 180 mph when Cooper left the plane. Remember, this would have been after Rataczak had increased the flaps to 30 degrees, which was prior to Cooper descending the stairs.

At the time Cooper jumped, the airliner was in level flight at 10,000 feet above sea level.  The speed shown on the aircraft airspeed indicator is known.  And correcting that airspeed to True Airspeed (the aircraft's speed with respect to the ambient air) gives a value of 225 Miles Per Hour (or very close to it).

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...If Cooper had pulled the rip cord while standing at the bottom of the stairs, he would have gotten the worst opening shock possible since the airliner was doing about 225 MPH at that point....

R99, I believe the aircraft was traveling around 180 mph when Cooper left the plane. Remember, this would have been after Rataczak had increased the flaps to 30 degrees, which was prior to Cooper descending the stairs.

At the time Cooper jumped, the airliner was in level flight at 10,000 feet above sea level.  The speed shown on the aircraft airspeed indicator is known.  And correcting that airspeed to True Airspeed (the aircraft's speed with respect to the ambient air) gives a value of 225 Miles Per Hour (or very close to it).

225 mph is a very high exit speed. I did at test jump from a firewalled C-130A. Rough, but not even close to deadly. I'd estimate the speed was around 320 mph plus. The A wasn't as fast as subsequent models with more powerful engines.

If DBC pulled off the stairs with a C-9 canopy, even if the speed was 225 mph,  I'd bet big odds that the canopy deployed without significant damage and delivered a live uninjured jumper to terra firma, (or hydro infirma if his luck was bad).

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