SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle re parachutes for NORJAK test drop
This copy: Part 64 p. 123Also filed at Part 70 p. 75 (primary)
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SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle re NORJAK test drop arrangements with Earl Cossey
Document date 18 January 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-64:123-123 Document: Memo SA Charles E. Farrell to SAC Seattle re NORJAK test drop arrangements with Earl Cossey Id: Cooper-Part-64:123-123 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A123-123 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 64 p. 123 (DB Cooper-26925), Memo, dated 18 Jan 1972, serial SE 164-81-1993 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A123-123
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 1/18/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK
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In connection with preparations for the test drop, efforts were made to contact EARL COSSEY at Sunset 3-0475. COSSEY was out, but [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Seattle, [REDACTED] of EARL COSSEY, advised that he was presently working toward
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[REDACTED]. He advised that one of the back packs was a 26 footer and the other a 28 footer, but both were rigged so they would have the same rate of descent.
He advised that the 26 foot chute, although it is smaller, also has a different design which would explain why the two chutes could have an almost identical rate of descent. According to a chart referred to by [REDACTED], the chutes would have the following rate of descent:
A 28 foot with a person between 130 and 200 lbs., would drop about 17 to 18 feet per second.
He advised that the chutes would normally deploy in 3 or 4 seconds. They both were like military chutes in that they did not have sleeves.
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[REDACTED] advised that he works [REDACTED] [REDACTED].
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CEF:klb / (3)
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[guess: 9/31/77]
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[guess: Sub. D] 164-81- 1993 1 [guess: An] [guess: Un] [illegible]
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DB Cooper-26925
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1993
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