Wednesday, August 13, 2008

ETHIOPIA: ADDIS ABABA AIRPORT

Ingenius!

The wheat to save starving people in remote places had to be air dropped. Germany provided Hercules planes to do the drop.

Here the wheat is being loaded into bags. First a normal 100kg bag. Then that bag was placed in a larger bag. Finally it was all placed in a third larger bag.

When dropped, the small bag would burst spilling the grain into the second bag. And if the second bag broke it would spill into the third bag--no grain lost.

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