The magic ingredient to make all of this work was butter

The magic ingredient to make all of this work was butter. Butter on the ramp and butter on the bottom of the crate. Butter would eliminate all of the friction!

We washed a bunch of empty soft drink bottles, loaded them into Chester’s wagon, hauled them to a small grocery about 4 blocks away, exchanged the bottles for the deposit money and used that money to buy a box of butter.

Four sticks of butter did not really coat the ramp and the crate bottom very well, but so what, we were ready to fly.

Chester somehow got the ‘right’ to be the test pilot. so he loaded into the crate atop the picnic table and I got behind to push. We needed more butter. In lieu of more butter, we slid the contraption somewhat onto the ramp and Chester reboarded. This time when I pushed, it moved. It moved just far enough to tilt downward on the ramp an cause the ramp, the crate, the wings, the tail and Chester to crash to the ground. He must have been resilient because I don’t recall a medical emergency.