Off The Wall Questions!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:38:11 -0700, "Rich S."
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On 13 Oct 2005 13:06:32 -0700, "Richard Lamb"
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Actually, this one it true, Matt.

The technique was first used (AFAIK) by the Wycliff Bible Translators
as a way to deliver
small loads to jungle missionaries.

Richard

Don't THINK that was the first use, but it was definitely an early
use. The bucket could get into terrain you would never land a plane
in, and unteathered drops were too easy to lose.

Nate Saint, a missionary aviator in Ecuador, was the inventor of the
technique.

Rich S.

-That's Correct - it was Mission Aviation Fellowship, not
Wycliffe/Jaars.

I just knew Wycliffe didn't sound right.

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-That's Correct - it was Mission Aviation Fellowship, not
Wycliffe/Jaars.

I just knew Wycliffe didn't sound right.

And all this time I thought it was the Moody Bible Institute at the
Moody-Wooddale airport near Chicago.

Rich S.

Well, I was only 12 when I read the book.
Heck, I can't even remember the title now...

Richard

On 13 Oct 2005 20:45:18 -0700, "Richard Lamb"
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Well, I was only 12 when I read the book.
Heck, I can't even remember the title now...

Richard

Through Gates of Splendour