The Twinkie Bomber

In Spanish Fork, one of our local legends is Gail Halverson, the candybomber. During 1948 and 1949, he wanted to spread some happiness to the children of Berlin so he dropped candy with little parachutes to them from his plane.

One of my friends is a private pilot and wants to drop twinkies with streamers on his son who has a birthday on Saturday. Before he can do it, he wants to test it though, and that's where I come in.

Tomorrow I will get a couple of thrills. Firstly, I will be able to go flying with him in his flying club's Cessna 172 and he's going to let me drive a bit. But also we will test out the capability of a flying twinkie by bombing my home with them!

My kids are thrilled to death that for lunch tomorrow they will go out to the pasture and wait for Daddy to fly by in the plane and drop twinkies on them.

Bombs away!