Sentence examples for aerial drop from inspiring English sources

The country's Department of Conservation was conducting a massive aerial drop of a toxin known as 1080.

About 450 firefighters dug shallow trenches on steep mountainsides, lit fires at strategic points and made aerial drops of fire retardant to keep the flames from spreading.

The agents tested both by exploding ground bombs and by aerial drops were phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, cyanogen chloride, and mustard gas.

The Forest Service has long maintained mutual aid and assistance-by-hire agreements with L.A. County Fire for daytime aerial drops and other firefighting assistance.

"Nobody tries to intentionally damage anything, and no one wants to see firefighters' lives threatened... but absent long-term management, you could see real impacts on species". He and other scientists say no one truly knows the impact of firefighting on wild lands, particularly bulldozers scraping to bare earth and aerial drops of chemical fire retardant.

So far, American help has not been visible, except for an aerial food drop near the airport last week.

As a teenager he chanced aerial leaflet-dropping for the outlawed Communist party - from the obscurity of a cinema balcony.

The United Nations Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs also reported that 20 health facilities were struck or damaged by aerial bombs dropped by the Assad regime or its allies in October and November, and that many aid organisations have had to scale back or suspend their operations as a result of increasing attacks.

Aerial bombs dropping on Kuwait signal the start of the Gulf war.

The agency also called in aerial water drops by a Los Angeles County Fire Department helicopter.

These parties threw vast resources into their campaign, with ten million leaflets, 300,000 posters, radio and cinema addresses and aerial propaganda drops.