Pilot airdrops Thanksgiving turkeys to folks residing off-grid in Alaska – video

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Pilot airdrops Thanksgiving turkeys to folks residing off-grid in Alaska – video

Esther Keim delivers frozen turkeys to folks residing in distant elements of Alaska, flying low over rural areas of the US state in her small aircraft. For her Alaska Turkey Bomb programme, she flies about 100 miles north from her base in Wasilla so far as the foothills of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Typically she must enlist the assistance of a ‘turkey dropper’ to really eject the frozen poultry from the aircraft. At different instances, she’s on turkey responsibility whereas whereas her buddy Heidi Hastings pilots the aircraft.

Keim contacts households on social media to allow them to know she will probably be coming with the turkeys, then buzzes the home with the aircraft to allow them to know to return exterior. All however two turkeys had been delivered by Tuesday, with supply plans for the final two birds thwarted by Alaska’s unpredictable climate. She makes a median of 30-40 turkey deliveries every year


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