....I remember when the bvack door on the 727 was actually used.
Thread Drift (HighJack?) Alert AAHOOGAH< AAHOOGAH LOL
D B Cooper, November 24, 1971, Portland, Oregon takeoff; Seatle, Washington for the chutes and money.
John OIn my "Waxed Paper" item, I wasn't suggesting that AE/FN had some on their plane, just that the hole in the ground technique was known at lleast in the '40s and plastic wasn't needed for the technique.As I recall my ScoutMaster's demo, he had a roll of the waxed paperA lot of work, but it worked. What I learned hen, but prolly didn't realize it cuz I was only about 12 years old, was to use what is available and use your brain and you have a good chance of surviving.ood "legs"As I said, Nothing new under the Sun.
Except no plastic or wax paper was involved, it was not a solar still. Rogers and his crew improvised by burning wood torn from the airplane to boil seawater and condense fresh water. The crew was not in a life raft but in their seaplane that they landed at sea after they ran out of gas. The plane remained afloat for ten days while they made a sail from fabric torn off the plane and the crew sailed it 400 miles to Kauai. They used the water they had on board and they collected some rain water. On the seventh day they distilled seawater by burning wood for five hours and collected half a canteen full off fresh water. gl