Tag: D.B. Cooper

REFLECTIONS Extra – A new D.B. Cooper book we contributed to

The book is available directly from Schiffer Publishing at https://www.schifferbooks.com/d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-reexamining-the-hijacking-and-disappearance-7301 – from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Flight-305-Reexamining-Disappearance/dp/0764362569 – or patronize your favorite bookseller.

It is a pleasure to draw upon the NWAHC’s holdings and airline know-how to assist researchers and authors, and for about two years we’ve had the honor of corresponding with Bob Edwards, a British economist, researcher, private pilot, and writer currently in Romania, on his new book, “D.B. Cooper and Flight 305,” releasing this week.

Edwards’ approach to the well-trod ground of the unsolved case is not to look at Cooper the persona, but rather is to crunch the numbers of the 727’s flight path and physics of the jumper and parachute, using FBI and Northwest source documents and interviews, with follow-up interviews with parachuting and airframe experts.

Dr. Edwards sat for a podcast recording on the “Cooper Vortex” this month for an hour, and name-checked the NWAHC in the interview. You can listen to this recording at https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-and-flight-305-dr-robert-edwards/

We wish Bob success with his book and look forward to adding it to our library!

REFLECTIONS Replay – our D.B. Cooper review issue

Our Fall 2012 issue featured key points from a discussion with Bill Rataczak, the co-pilot on Flight 305, during a “Coffee & Conversation” event at the NWAHC’s original museum site, as well as photos of the get-together. Follow this link to read the full issue – there’s also a great article about Northwest’s relationship with the advertising agency Campbell-Mithun:

https://northwestairlineshistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1209-newsletter.pdf

REFLECTIONS Extra – The inflight magazines D.B. Cooper might have read

The mystery around the unsolved November 1971 hijacking continues to hold the public’s imagination, even 50 years after the event. While the notoriety does result in crackpot phone calls to our museum every so often, we do have to admit it keeps the Northwest name in active memory…

NWA’s magazine of the 1970s, Passages, was published every other month in the early part of the decade. So for sure the November-December issue would have been in Cooper’s seat pocket. Unlikely but one never knows if the September-October issue was also floating around the cabin. We present both issues in full here for your browsing pleasure.

Note the choice of advertising on the back cover of the November-December issue… Hertz Rent-a-Car featuring … Disney characters? And Disney would go on to purchase Marvel? Whose hit show, “Loki,” would portray the D.B. Cooper hijacking in its first episode, streaming on Disney+? What a delicious coincidence!

The November-December 1971 edition of Passages. Click on the magazine cover to open a PDF of the full issue.
The September-October 1971 edition of Passages. Click on the magazine cover to open a PDF of the full issue.
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