HAADS
The high altitude 1 ton ME's were an interesting load. I was standing in at JATE when the task came to resupply the Gorazde pocket by air. The better option might have probably been a low level drop at night. Anyway, there we were at 17000ft with our poor despatchers and loadie bimbling around on full oxygen as the stick of ring - slot 1 Ton manually ejected loads were prepared. As aforementioned there was a check fire on Larkhill as the load was despatched and disappeared rapidly as these drogue chutes did little to slow them down.
The first hit the DZ at Black Ball Firs in the "football pitch" area but the rest expanded along the line of the DZ quite a lot.
After reconsidering the fact that the Serbs would have got most of the load the plan for "Operation Certain Death" was shelved.