Recent content by dfs346

Ryan Burns and former FBI agent Larry Carr on why the North Carolina parachute was not that used by D B Cooper; why Richard McCoy, Kenneth Christiansen (and many others) were not D B Cooper; whether an early suspect slipped through the cracks; and more ... https://youtube.com/watch?v=9D8gsANjc3E

Part 3/3 of D. B. Cooper and Flight 305, with Francis Tapon and Bob Edwards, coming on the WanderLearn channel on January 17, 2025:

Part 2/3 of D. B. Cooper and Flight 305, with Francis Tapon and Bob Edwards, coming on the WanderLearn channel on January 10, 2025:

Not related to the reported discovery in North Carolina, but an original hypothesis about where D. B. Cooper jumped from Flight 305 (not what the FBI assumed): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25364040-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-oscillations-and-pressure-bump-revisited

Author Dr Bob Edwards and podcaster Francis Tapon, discussing D. B. Cooper and Flight 305 on the Wanderlearn channel. Dr Edwards wrote on his GoodReads/Amazon platform: "Despite the provocative headline on YouTube, I do not fault the FBI's handling of the case of Flight 305. Some aspects, for...

More on why the parachute from North Carolina is not that used by the hijacker of Flight 305: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25331961-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-backpack-from-carolina

Drawing 42G2001 (courtesy of Wright State University Libraries, Dave Gold Parachute Collection), definitively establishes that the parachute canopy found in North Carolina is a 24-foot chest (reserve) canopy manufactured to specification 42G2001-7, and is not the canopy used by the hijacker of...

From the author of D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25304314-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-north-carolina-parachute

As a mathematician and private pilot with some experience of parachuting, for me the most interesting aspects of the Norjak case were the aeronautical, navigational and meteorological data. What was the flight path? When and where did the hijacker jump? What was the wind speed and direction...

Back in November 2022, I posted an article on my GoodReads/Amazon platform, regarding “the man in the woolly hat” (https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/23092631-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-man-in-the-woolly-hat). The essence of the story was that on October 21, 1972, LA Magazine...

Here's an extract from Fred Barnowsky's obituary in the Daily Inter Lake of Kalispell, Montana.

Here are four screenshots from the documentary film Flying Men, Flying Machines, produced by John Wilheim Productions for Air America around 1970. It shows the Boeing 727C operated by CIA front company Southern Air Transport for air drop and jump tests at Takhli, Thailand, probably in May 1968...

In 1958, Barnowsky's hairline was starting to recede and he was brushing his hair straight back. This gave him a pronounced "widow's peak". In this respect he differed from all of the FBI’s sketches of the hijacker, which depicted a parting on the left. But sometime in the 1980s, the second...

To my mind, the FBI’s early identification of Barnowsky as a suspect, followed by his elimination, merits further study. To this end, I have submitted FOIA requests to the FBI, for a copy of the US Forest Service photo of Barnowsky, and to the CIA, for documentation of Barnowsky's work for the...

(Left and upper right) Fred A. Barnowsky in 1958. Image credit: Fresno Bee, by courtesy of Joey Lyon. (Lower right) Image KK5-1 from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog of 1971 (of which the second stewardess said “that’s him, except for the hair and ears”); image credit: FBI, with my...