My mom wanted her ashes spread by her pilot sons over Mount Rainier. I took 2 heavey paper grocery bags and cut them at the glued seam and cut away the floor of the bags to make a flat sheet of heavy craft paper. I folded the craft paper sheets along two parallel lines to make a paper trough. Glued to one end were two heavey cotton strings, from the thick cotton string spool we use for roast beef. Using model rocket style parachute to string glued bindings, the strings were bonded to the paper, which bindings are quit strong. The strings were long enough to extend from inside the cockpit where they were secured at the loose end, and not long enough to allow the entire assembly, unfolded, to reach the horizontal stab.
When the trough was full of ash we folded over the two sides to cover the ashes and rolled it up towards the strings. Wrapping the strings around the paper bundle secured it from leaking ash. In my C172 we flew over the mountain, secured the strings inside and dropped the rolled bundle out the window. The bundle, in the wind, first unrolled the string then blew itself open and apart ripping the bag from the strings. Mom and biodegradable craft paper was deployed after two such assemblies went out. The strings were reeled in. Before the flight we applied masking tape to the leading edge of the horozontal stab, a tiny amount came back with us there. That's how we did it. Before hand I read some accident reports about other less coordinated attempts at ash deployment, including a few disasters. We wanted no chance of in cockpit or early release or leaks. cheers! jg
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