Ice cream sandwiches can be dropped from 200 feet without anything and they suffer no damage upon impact. Done it many times dropping ice cream for campers. just take them all out of the box and put them in a bag. I slow down to about 70 and dump the bag out of the Citabria window. kids all get undamaged ice cream sandwiches and a bit of an airshow after the drop is done.

182 STOL driver wrote:Saw a thing on "Alaska Airmen " where they had a package(cooler ?) on a 200 ft. (maybe more ) rope and doing a turn about a point from a PA-12 ,lower it down til it touched -then releasing rope.

Hope it worked out better for them than it did for Nate Saint.

Ok, here are the pictures of our highly developed Ice-cream bar dropping box:

The insulated box:



The 1" webbing attached to the parachute leads. Notice the all-important Duct Tape wrapping. It's what make this a true aviation box.



The whole thing attached to the 5', high-visibility orange military pre-chute: