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This is not true! We used to have flour bomb accuracy contests. I used to drop rolls of toilet paper out of a Citabria, and use the streamer as a reference for aerobatic flying. The reg reads something like, "...dropping objects...as long as...no danger to people or structures on the ground..." FAA regs can be surprisingly liberal if there is no danger to non-participants. An example is altitude limits over uninhabited or sparsely populated areas. It's not 500'! You can fly as low you want but, "no closer than 500' to any structure or person...in any case no lower that a power unit failure would cause an undo-hazard to people on the ground." Don't forget dropping sky divers. But they jump and aren't "released".LOLBe aware is against FAA regulation to drop anything from a flying craft.