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"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few". Matt 9-37
It was on mission medical flights in the Gulf of Mexico that Tim piloted for xx years. Being on a well-deserved
sabbatical from Gulfstream that he and his wife bought a house in Puerto Rico. His wife, a schoolteacher, taught
English and other courses as well as both witnessing for the Lord. Since they were there so long, they saw
many weather conditions more danger than the average for the continental US. With the warm waters and ever-blowing
warm tradewinds, this area of the world generates some of the most powerful weather systems anywhere.
Weather there can consist of deluging tropical rain to dangerous thunderstorms, and of course, waterspouts and tornados.
Every now and again a hurricane formed along the equator intensifies into a very dangerous strength.
Pilots whose planes have the range and speed to beat the system will evacuate. But others, who have the bulk of the
smaller prop planes want to stay with their homes, and many park their aircraft next to their homes. Others
may be caught away from the home field and have to land on a rural field consisting of an unpaved strip, at best, or just
a grassy clearing. Tie-down was usually to anchors augured(screwed)into sandy soil, or ropes rigged to trees. During his
many flights, with a lot of time to think about the problem, Tim came to the conclusion that like the aircraft he had flown
in the US Army that required spoilers to destroy lift when landing on short fields, small aircraft needed a detachable,
non-destructive spoiler system to spoil lift in foul weather.
This was the birth of the AeroSpoiler. After years of research, specification, mechanical design, and computer modeling
by fluid dynamics engineers, the idea became a reality.
 
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