Re: Millitary assistance?

[jdharris@post.cis.smu.edu (Jerry D. Harris)]

At 8:30 AM 11/20/96, Jeffrey Martz wrote:

>     The 1992 "roadkill" stegosaurus from Canon City, when fully plastered,
>weighed something like 7 tonnes.  The Army lent a big helicopter (I don't know
>what kind-it was a two propeller deal) to get it out of the gulch.  The
>weight of the speciemn was near the helicopter's carying capacity, so
>there was some concern at the time that they might get up into the air,
>start having problems, and have to cut the thing loose (I would not have
>wanted to be on the ground if THAT happened).

        It was a Chinook helicopter that Ft. Carson (the local army base)
lent to the cause.  They were happy to do it, but thereafter, the Pentagon
came down rather hard on the higher-ups at the base, and they were
essentially told never to do that again without getting Pentagon permission
first.  8-Z

Jerry D. Harris                       (214) 768-2750
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