Corrie wrote:

Curious, though - any accident-rate stats on missionary aviation? Be
interesting to compare it to secular bush-flying.

Jim Elliot (accompanied MAF pilot Nate Saint on their martyrdom flight)
didn't die by accident, but among his esteemed sayings was a good one for
anyone: "When it comes time to die, make sure all you have to do is die."

Nate's two children were actually baptised years later -- on site -- by two
of their father's killers. A heckuva story.

Question, though. I had always thought it was missionary pilots, but
perhaps not -- who perfected the art of flying around in circles trailing a
rope in order to drop off and pick up things from the ground? I can't find
any references to the technique. What the heck would I enter in a google
search?

- Scott