Operation Airdrop’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts – Doug Jackson Interview

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🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Twelve days ago, Operation Airdrop didn’t exist. What did exist was dozens of towns in Texas that were cut off from the outside world by Hurricane Harvey's flood waters, downed trees, and power lines. After driving a trailer load of supplies to Rockport, TX, Doug Jackson wondered if general aviation airplanes could be used to fly in relief supplies to isolated communities. Twelve days later, over 200 Aircraft from Mexico and all over U.S. have flown over 500 flights and delivered over 250,000 pounds of supplies. All with small, general aviation aircraft. Now the focus of the operation shifts to Florida, where Hurricane Irma is still raging as this show is being released. In our interview with Doug Jackson, he describes the catalyst for the organization--a moving encounter with a down-on-his-luck man with a sick dog--how the operation was set up in such a short period of time, and how pilots can donate money or use their airplane to deliver badly needed hurricane relief supplies. You can find the Operation Airdrop webpage here and their Facebook page here. Click here for the listener survey. Tell us what flight planning tools you use when planning a longer flight. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website. You can Dictate a listener question from your phone and I’ll try to answer it on a future show, or send an email.

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0:00.0	And we call it a little FedEx operation.
0:04.4	They know where every airplane is, when they take off, when they depart, what's on board.
0:09.9	And we like to refer to it as the speed of social media combined with the speed of private aviation.
0:16.5	And we realized, our military realized very quickly, that we could respond at almost lightning speed.
0:25.3	Literally, if you call us and tell us you need something, we can have it to you in a matter of a
0:29.4	couple of hours.
0:30.8	Hello, and thank you for joining us on Aviation News Talk for a Newsmaker's edition, where we talk
0:35.4	with people who aren't making the news.
0:37.2	And there's been no bigger news over the last two weeks than first Hurricane Harvey in Texas,
0:42.3	and now Hurricane Irma, which is causing destruction across Florida, even as I record this.
0:47.5	As regular listeners know, I've been traveling over the last two weeks,
0:50.7	but have been posting general aviation-related flood relief stories on my Patreon
0:55.0	page at AviationNewsTalk.com slash awesome. And one of those articles written on September 6th by
1:01.3	Dave Tulles for AOPA first made me aware of Operation AirDrop, which has coordinated the efforts of
1:07.3	more than 160 pilots and aircraft from around the United States and Mexico
1:11.5	to fly relief supplies into the hardest hit areas of Texas.
1:15.8	And in a moment, we'll be setting down with Doug Jackson,
1:18.6	who founded the Operation Air Drop Group, just 12 days ago.
1:22.4	And he'll tell you how you as an individual can help with hurricane relief now.
1:26.9	So let's get ready to roll because this newsmaker's edition starts now.
1:50.5	Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about the absolute best of general aviation,
1:53.5	and that's pilots using our skills to help others in need.
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