Disasters, both natural and man-made, occur every year and can significantly impact a population near the disaster site. In some disasters, ground lines of communication and transportation may be damaged or destroyed making it impossible to quickly deliver aid via traditional methods. Aerial delivery provides humanitarian aid response within hours following a disaster. The currently utilized solutions present significant risk of injury to the underlying population from the descending items. Delivering a substantial volume of aid in a single container also raises concerns that the strong or weapon-wielding population will take control of the container and ration out the aid as they see fit. The goal of this paper is to document the design, development and testing of a helicopter delivery system that will deliver food and water over a population and significantly reduce the risk of injury from dispersed aid items over the population.
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