Photos by Westminster Films & MAF
Pilot Nate Saint (brother of chalk-artist Phil Saint) has developed method of lowering a bucket equipped with telephone in areas without landing field. W hile plane circles, bucket hovers within reach of ground party. This system has been a life-saver in delivering emergency medicines to stricken missionaries and native residents.
After MAF's flying mission the missionary settles down to the job of reducing a strange language into writing.
mrachutes are worn but such added safety devices as shoulder ham - ssses, sturdier brakes and alternate fuel systems have been developed.
Ambulance cases accounted for a fourth of the M A F flights in Honduras last year; service is for both missionary and native.
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