Show pigeon Chutis ts carrier pigeons employed by U S armed forces are today being lowered from planes in crates suspended by midget sized parachutes if pigeons were released at foot altitude from a plane moving miles per hour without this protection wing feathers would be blown oil off by the blast of air from the propeller and birds would freeze to deaths death after a carrier has descended several thousand feet in the crate the door of the crate is automatically ak opened releasing the birdno do its duty |