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This video taken 26 years ago today shows why low level airdrop can be extremely dangerous

July 1, 2013 David Cenciotti

Airdrops from military cargo planes are not always performed at high altitude, as the one showed in the spectacular video posted a few days ago. LAPES (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) enables cargo aircraft to […]