[imardmd1]

Old, but not previously posted; a curious way of product delivery.

The "bucket drop", invented by a missionary trying to airdrop gifts to natives in Ecuador, would let warplanes release a swarm of drones and lasso them back.

[DesertRhino]

Invented by missionaries to drop supplies and gifts to remote tribes...

It’s so nice that we found a way to beat plowshares into swords! The modern creepy world never disappoints!

[dadfly]

Nate Saint was a mechanical genius, and a very great man of God.

[GenXPolymath]

Ah yes a pylon turn, this is how you circle a target and drop or fire 30 mm or 105mm artillery into them. The AC130 would like to join the chat.

You can pick people up this way too. Drop a harness in a pylon turn they strap in and you bank out to fly straight the line goes taunt they rise vertically a couple hundred feet then whoosh off horizontal and vertical as you reel them in.

Course you could also do this way with a crazy low altitude line snag between two poles and yeet someone to the sky.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zeZXfOp0w&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

4:50 mark...The balls on that guy made of pure Chad level titanium.

[ByteMercenary]

Hmmm ... a concept recently promoted in movies ie the Death Star and TIE-fighters ...

[Red Badger]

Aviation Ping!...............

[sauropod]

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[Paal Gulli]

The application changed but the "aircraft functioning as aircraft carrier" is about 20 years older than Nate Saint's application.