Always amazing skills- pictures

Don-Wi · Jul 31, 2010

Tonight a little while after my wife and I got home from baby shopping, a small plane came and was crop dusting the field directly across the road from our house. Was going perpendicular to the road which meant he was pulling up right before the wires running with it, going right over our head. Once he got done he did the headlanbds flying parallel to the road and when he was done, he made another pass, rocked his wings and waved to us, then turned back the other way and he went on to another field.

Truely an amazing thing seeing someone with enough skill to nfly a plane like that.

My wife was taking pictures and video. Can't upload video straight to YT from photobucket, so I'll post a link to my album so you guys can see the videos and the rest of the photos.

http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/djn125/crop duster/

Donovan from Wisconsin[/img]

JD2ACWD · Jul 31, 2010

great pix and videos, thanks

tom upton · Jul 31, 2010

Excellent pics/video I have always been amazed by these guys. I worked out in Nova Scotia 25 or 30 years ago and there was a group of these kamakazee pilots there spraying for some kind of beetle that was infesting the spruce trees. When they where coming in at night they would sometimes put on a mini airshow.They made the snow birds look like amateurs! I tell you those guys where fearless, and maybe a tad bit bonkers to boot!

Don-Wi · Jul 31, 2010

The great thing is that I don't have to pay for this show. There is the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh going on right now, but I've never been there. This has to be about as good as any show they can put on there...

Donovan from Wisconsin

teddy52food · Jul 31, 2010

I heard that the pilot (Sulley) that landed that plane on the Hudson River, Was crop dusting at age 16.

Don-Wi · Jul 31, 2010

The great thing is that I don't have to pay for this show. There is the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh going on right now, but I've never been there. This has to be about as good as any show they can put on there...

Donovan from Wisconsin

agpilot · Jul 31, 2010

Hi Tom Upton: Noo... their not "bonkers." They have learned how to control that airplane to the point of being able to get that type job done. The "bonkers" are the ones "texting" while driving rush hour traffic or while drinking etc etc. That type of flying reflects skill similar to the "Bush pilot" we all have seen in back country geting in/out of very tight places.. or like the Navy pilots landing on a Carrier. It all takes a while to get somewhat comfy doing it. It takes effort & time to learn that skill. BTW.. That model aircraft was my favorite of 4 different ones I had.. it just felt good (but was modified for that better handeling) Those pictures make me wish I was younger again.
.. ag (ret)

Inno · Jul 31, 2010

My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing one out in North Dakota a couple months ago when we went to pick up my son. We could see him for a couple miles before we got to where he was actually working back and forth. Flew right over top of the car, looked like if he didn't pull up enough he'd clip the top of it..........truly skillful. What amazed me is how quick and agile those little planes are and how quick they can turn 'em around and come back for another swipe. They must be a very well built plane.

IOWA NORTHEAST · Jul 31, 2010

Wed. a crop chopper was spanking his way over the farmstead where we were working. I can't help but think he was showing off a bit. That was at 3:30, and at 5

clock I was watching him in another field. He did not make another pass, and then the pager stated he had hit a power line. He had no life threating injuries, so all is well.

Here he charges $11.00 per acre, and another $10.00 for the spray. I have no idea how much cheaper a plane might be, and they are like flies around here for a few weeks.

My brother says they go under power lines where he is in MN. Boys will be boys when it comes to showing off.

paul · Aug 1, 2010

Saw that here in MN years ago when the neighbor had them fly on some spray.Went under the power lines, over the road. Had to time out semis I would think!

Not much arial done in my neighborhood. Lot of sweet corn & peas grown all around me, there is a plane based 20 miles west of me, and a heleocopter 15 miles east of me, but only see them fly over on the way home, rarely in my neighborhood.

Cool pics.

Was wondering what arial application cost, think a a ground sprayer is around $3, but they will damage some crop...

--->Paul

Bob from Australia · Aug 1, 2010

We use them on my farm as well as ground spray rigs.

The plane is dearer and can not control the spray as well as a ground rig.

Its advantage is that we can spray by air when it is too wet to get on the ground, or we want the job done fast.

We still do some ground marking for the plane but less now with good GPS systems. It is not an enjoyable job, does not matter how careful you are, you alway get a bit of spray drift.

HughB · Aug 1, 2010

Agpilot, We used a Pawnee for a tow plane at our glider club. Great plane for that kind of work. We used to get a similar reaction from onlookers. "you must be crazy to fly a plane with no engine". Nope, proper training and learning to work thermals. You could log flights of several hours. That old saying about the old vs the bold guess I did something right cause now i'm 73. I loved every minute of it.

JMS/.MN · Aug 1, 2010

Local ground app rates are about double that since fuel went so high a few years ago. Only time we saw aerial here was a couple extremely wet years and the app window was closing.

teddy52food · Aug 1, 2010

I talked to a friend that I went to school with earlier in life. He was crop dusting at the time. He said that when you get that close to the ground at that speed, a cousion (sp)of compressed air is between the wings and the ground & you would have to put the plane into a dive to get any closer.

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