Originally posted by racerzeke
I feel out of place here, but if you dont mind me asking where do you send in the request for this info, and is it free?
ntsb foia page
I can't reccommend inundating them, but I can't stop the flood either. It's free and, presuming I'm on a real track here, as the others seem to
be, it's remarkably fast. Tho sometimes spotty on full delivery.
As John Farmer found out, they do not answer questions (especially "why" ones). They will give you documents and files they have, but it helps if
you know what you want. As far as I know all of it is out there on the internet already - I'm only getting mine for verification and due to specific
and public doubts I've aired.
They have data for Flights 77 and 93 from the black boxes, There are apparently animations made for both. But not from 11 or 175 - no black boxes
recovered officially. So no FDR data or animation or CSV files. If you just ask for "any and all" they think you're a dumbass and might be slow or
surly. I dunno.
Originally posted by mirageofdeceit
@Ultima: give MS Movie Maker a shot - it can compress video.
Regarding comparing files - just MD5 hash them. It should be reliable enough that if both files are genuine, the same data, and unaltered, they will
have the same MD5 hash. It will save you the hassel of reading and comparing every line manually. If they are different, then you've no choice but to
read them manually. 
I hope Ultima knows what that means because I don't. MD5? Might be useful when I get mine
I'd love to see Ultima's animation, but if it's not diferent in any way, then no rush. I'm more curious about files on the CDR and how those line
up with what we've seen.
@CL: Hope you get the CDs/DVDs soon! I'm really looking forward to hearing what you've got.
I'm not sure if I'll need to write a letter and send it, but e-mail might do, since they already
agreed to send. I just need to say hey, send
em! Maybe even on the phone. It wasn't just they forgt the dics - they used the wrong envelope, addressed and posted it, - the whole process was
done wrong. This is an odd oversight - it almost seems they want me to write. But then I read too much into things...