What if you could suck in the chute, shoot out a set of wings and fire up a jet engine, all at the same time?
Then you'd have something!;-)
Cheers
Radar
OK, but what about the load of logs, and the 4-wheeler?
(BTW, thanks for posting that, I loved it!)
N
That is a neat invention, that I was unaware of.
Steve's father was a pilot also who helped develop and implement a basket drop. A basket was let out the window or door of the small airplane in flight, attached to a long cord, which was lowered to the ground as Nate Saint did a tight circle with one wing down over a clearing. They were able to exchange gifts with the Indians and set up a face to face meeting.
I have never meet Steve, but several pilots live here locally, who were missionary pilots after the tragedy. In fact I have surveyed for Rogers lot, and hope to survey for Don this weekend.
Here is a brief audio of their experience in the days and years after.
http://www.jaars.org/files/audio/Pilots-2.mp3