Does anyone know the manufacturer or distributor for the Air Drop Boxes?

These were reusable but very seldom got them back as they were used for camp fire kindling.

What did they make them out of, and do you think an enterprising individual could duplicate them and market them here in the states? Is there still a demand for this sort of product? Enquiring minds would like to know.

I airdropped some stuff to to old men out moose hunting and they were both doped to the gills for days.

One man had bad arthritus and took high pop pain pills and gold pills and all sorts of stuff, the other had run out of copenhagen snuff. I got a tube of snuff, 12 cans, and the other man's wife gave me his whole shaving kit full of drugs.

I wrapped the drugs and the snuff in several old sheets to use for game bags and tied a long streamer of survey tape to it. I flew down and made a lovely drop onto a rock beach.

The drugs all exploded, the snuff cans ruptured. They dumped all of it into a pan and picked out the bits of broken pill bottles and just took a couple of big spoonfulls twice a day.

They were both so high they could fly on thier own, they stayed that way for several days until I could get back and pick them up

Shane.

Oh boy......I hope there wasn't any Viagra mixed in with that concoction.

Funny thing is, the other night I switched channels on the tube to a rerun of the movie Cast Away. At the very beginning of the movie Tom Hanks sends himself a stop watch/clock in a long box. I went to Fed-EX to inquire about the availability of these boxes and was presented with a few. Took them home and modifed them as closely to the original drop boxes as possible. Low and behold after a little experimenting and tweaking I think I have something that works better than the original. Wonder if I can patent the thing.

We've dropped water bottles, whiskey and wine bottles (for medicinal purposes only of course) in the originals without a rupture.

I once dropped an army duffel bag full of food (tightly packed) and it came through okay. The 500' spool of rope, OTOH, blew apart into a rats nest that Medussa herself couldn't've untangled.
I put my buddy into my climbing harness, and tied him off to the back seat so that when he opened the door, and stepped out onto the gear to toss the things out, he'd remain with the plane! Fun stuff.
Berk

On the Maule, you find a nice sandy piece of tundra or raised beach, or snow, do a run level at 10' or 20' AGL, pop the door open. A well-wrapped box scoots out the door with a jab on the rudder, drops to the ground and slides and rolls. If you want to get fancy in the mountains you attach a 30-metre piece of very thin 2'-wide orange rip-stop nylon to the package and roll it so it only unrolls after it has cleared the tail. That works nicely from 300' to 1000' AGL and acts as a poorman's parachute (no parachutes in my plane, thank you very much) and slows the five-pound package down to about 75' per second--a survivable impact with sufficient bubble wrap. Have fun.

I think you could even drop jerry cans of fuel, partially filled. The airspace will absorb some of the shock of impact. Again, I would try them from very low--10' to 20' AGL.