When she heard that some of her neighbors were eating squirrels for Thanksgiving, a local pilot thought she’d lend a helping wing.
Many people believe turkeys can’t fly. They can, actually, in more ways than one.
Esther Sanderlin lives in rural Skwentna and West Susitna Valley Alaska, where flying small single-engine or prop planes is a common mode of personal transportation.
“I was visiting our newest neighbor and they were talking about splitting a squirrel three ways for dinner, and how that didn’t really go very far,” Sanderlin told Alaska’s NBC affiliate KTUU on the Monday in advance of Turkey Day.
“And I just had a thought at that moment, ‘You know what, I’m going to airdrop them a turkey for Thanksgiving,’ because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad and so I can do that really easily.”
Sanderlin grew up occasionally receiving turkeys at her home via air-drop after the roads froze over in late autumn. She combined these wild childhood memories with the news of the squirrel dinner and decided she ought to pay it forward.
This year she’s dropping 30 to 40 turkeys to ensure her neighbors have as much to eat as they like on the day to be thankful for friends and family.
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She doesn’t need to attach a parachute to them, as the soft snow below, and the frozen flesh of the turkey, means that a hard landing is no harm no fowl.
Speaking to the NBC, she said she hopes to turn her turkey drops into a nonprofit in the future so that she can extend her reach to more communities across Alaska.
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For the moment, she has a Facebook page called the Alaska Turkey Bomb.
“Huge shout out to everyone that helped with this year’s Turkey bombing! It was a success and thanks to many, we were able to deliver 36 Turkeys to the Yentna and Skwentna River area!” a post on the page read.
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