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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I heard about a US effort during the Vietnam War called Operation Barroom, intended to paradrop an elephant into a remote Vietnamese village for ceremonial purposes. You can strap parachutes to an elephant and parachute it out a plane. The trick is getting it to step out of the plane in flight. That reportedly required heavy duty tranquilization of the animal, and a side effect of the tranqs was extreme flatulence.
The cargo bay crew wore gas masks during the mission. 
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Dennis |
I would have thought the first difficulty to be getting the animal
on the plane
