Behind the Scenes at Operation Airdrop
September 21, 2017
General aviation, including the hundreds of community airports, is an untapped, strategic national resource that shined in a true time of need.
“What has become one of the largest overnight grassroots general aviation disaster relief groups, Operation Airdrop, started with a phone conversation Aug. 29 between pilots Doug Jackson and John Clay Wolfe (also a Dallas-Fort Worth radio personality) while Jackson and his friend Chip MacLaughlin drove from Rockport, Texas, back to their homes in Decatur after delivering a trailer full of supplies to the South Texas area that was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey.”
