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Dice, you can just call me Cousin Brucie. It used to be Georger's favorite pet name for me. Now, I shudder to think what he calls me in private...

Bruce someone at DZ coined you Cousin Bruce years ago. Brucie came next, as a pet name, from those days. I wasnt the one who coined either of those names. It may have been Smokin99, 377, Jo Weber? It was somebody in the distant past ...... I just went along with the program, literally. And it wasn't even pejorative. Would you prefer Dr Smith? Or Professor Smith? Clipper? Billy, Bob, Maxum, Arthuld? What drives me nuts is all the personal stuff that years ago became a part of the Cooper forums .... like 'Tina is a basket case'. I sure wasn't the author of that!  That illustrates my point. 

So, you are saying this was more of a stunt by Master Artisans

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Anyone got any new info on Suspects and Confessions

Derek Godsey's James Klansnic is a heck of a suspect,and he's posting stuff daily on Twitter.
Though if Klansnic was involved, then I'd bet it was a covert operation, and having a get-out-of-jail-free card.  Unlikely the man would risk going in the clink long term with a secure Boeing salary and 8 mouths to feed...
Though I haven't read Colbert s book yet, and he seems quite the investigator, I would imagine Rackstraw was involved (if an Operation) it would have been was on the ground or flying the Cessna for pickup; that reported plane flying under radar in area that night. For Colbert to get it THAT wrong, it'd be something.....

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So, you are saying this was more of a stunt by Master Artisans with nothing better to do, than a serious act of air piracy?

At what point does Dice fall out of his '57 Chevy doing 200mph and die in the ICU? Who attended his funeral? 

Possible NEW suspect pool?

Quotes:  "There was a static drop training range near George, WA (near Moses Lake) in 1971, used by a small group of USAF Special Forces "combat controllers” and by the Army for Loadmaster training. They shared a building at McChord and often trained together at Moses Lake. The program ‘presumably’ included drops from the back of the 727 at Moses Lake. I don’t know if this program ever came under focus when they were looking for DB Cooper, but I did hear that at one time the FBI was looking at the possibility that Cooper had Loadmaster connections. Carr brought that up perhaps because he found it mentioned in a few files. But, here is the rest of the story.

Although the group was small, these were fairly high level trainees and the program at McChord was important.

The USAF Special Forces "combat controllers" did precision freefall drops under various conditions and at night at Moses Lake.  They would also drop in and observe or participate in the Loadmaster training sessions being conducted and help provide wind data to the drop aircraft, and guide the air drop in by radio.  Their officer in charge was Capt. Wilson."

" M/Sgt R.D. (Wally) had the crew of load masters.  They had an "aerial delivery" shop in a corner of a warehouse sort of building at McChord, where they prepared stuff to go out and repacked their cargo chutes after each mission. Their work was important for training Loadmasters going to Vietnam. The group of  “USAF Special Forces combat controllers" shared a corner of the same building and each group kept the other informed and did mission planning together. The Loadmaster program was important. Several Army paratroopers from Fort Bragg were always assigned to this unit for Loadmaster training and you had to have previous paratrooper training in order to be accepted into the program. A lot of these people in both programs were training for operations in Vietnam. "

"I know Wilson and Wally got involved during the hijacking case in ‘71.  He received the request for chutes and passed it down to Wally’s shop. But then he checked with his superiors and was told not to provide the chutes or participate because full clearance had not been received. The person on the phone hadn’t even identified himself! So we didn’t supply the chutes and they had to go to private sources for those. Then within a couple of days, the matter was cleared up and the Air Force did cooperate, and several groups were formed to cooperate with the FBI and NWA in the Cooper hijacking matter. The FBI and NWA were helpless without our help.

People wondered if the hijacker was one of the people associated with the Moses Lake training operations. That was a very unique group of people with the same skills the hijacker spoke of and demonstrated. I’m not sure how that was checked out."

*Note: Special thanks to a couple of people who helped with this.

Moses Lake Boeing Test Facility

Here are some names I was given regarding the Boeing testing at Moses Lake - Rodger Seaman directed the Flight Test Lab, Bob Harris was an engineer in charge of the test lab. Not sure on timelines and era.

Originally, the runway and aviation facilities were built by the military, who named it Larsen AFB. Boeing bought it in 1968. The "North Training Area" was used for military ops. Currently, there is no commercial air traffic, which ended in 2010. There are approximately 150 flights a day at the facility. Half are estimated to be military. The remainder are general aviation.

The Cooper sleuth is named "Sunnie Bell," and she contacted me in 2015. She names an air traffic controller from Larsen AFB, Ed Kingrey, as DBC. Kingrey was an ATC in Portland in 1971, apparently. He was also an ATC in Saudi Arabia, 1982-1985.

I was only able to get general information on Kingrey. He was a county sheriff's deputy in the second half of his life. Nothing jumped out at me that said, SKYJACKER. But Sunnie says she knows the guy and is a True Believer.