Daredevil Of Farming
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In today's video we get to see a cool part of farming: crop dusters/air tractors. We see them in action on one of our fields, and have the opportunity to get up close and personal with them. Thank you for watching through my ad placements: they are what make my farming dreams possible, so I really appreciate it!!
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As a relatively experienced pilot, crop dusting scares the shit out of me. The risk is massive, if anything goes wrong you've got nowhere to go. The only thing that tops this when it comes to danger are firefighter planes.
That's one of the reasons that they keep their airspeed up. They want to have some energy to spare in case they lose the engine. The good news is that there is always a field nearby in case they have to make an emergency landing. :)
When I was flying, I thought of possibly training to do crop spraying, but like you, it scared the shit out of me.
It takes skill and nerves of steel to be a crop duster.
Actually built to crash. Notice how far back the pilot sits, rugged rollbar.
As a guy who leans back in his chair and observing?: the heat of the flames ad that to the job. But if i see spray versus fire planes the spray go closer to the earth than the fire.
Not my cup of tea both jobs.
Back in the 60s a guy told me the first spray pilots learned the job in the 9th Air Force, shooting up trains and trucks in Europe. Watching them work out here (I'm about 100 miles west of Laura) I believe it. She struck a chord with me, my fist airshow was when I was at Purdue, and we were standing right under the soloists, in their F4J's. I can still feel the way the earth moved.
I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. I serviced those beasts for a living! They make 2 seat versions if you kids wanted to go for a ride in a field! It's a blast. Not easy flying, Days are long! Thanks for the videos!
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I used to be a cotton inspector for the state, and while I was out in a field, I had to use the porta-john. I was inside when I heard a plane coming, and when he passed over, he bumped the roof of the porta-john with his wheel. I had no problems going after that. Those guys are amazing.
@@SemperFido9915 what does a cotton inspector inspect for?
@@Notbendover Out here, we have a moth that eats cotton bolls before they bloom. We had a sterilization program that was used in place of pesticides. 🙂
@@SemperFido9915 lolololol! 👍
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When I was a kid, I used to spend the summers working on my aunt and uncle's farm in the San Juaquin Valley, CA. I drove a tractor mowing, raking and bailing several large alfalfa fields all by my12y/o self! I loved it and looked forward to every summer. My uncle also owned seven airplanes, three were crop dusters and three were crop sprayers, while one was a twin engine Beach Craft Bonanza that they used to fly all over the U.S. and Cental and South America. Also, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy watching all of your videos. Also, your participation in Matt's Offroad Games was much appreciated and I look forward to seeing you there again in 2025!
The dusters and sprayers were Stearman By-planes. His favorite story was when he was dusting a grape vineyard and got too low. He caught the gear on the wire holding the vine up off the ground and flipped the plane upside down. He was hanging there all strapped in and was fortunate that his cockpit was between the wires, so he nor the plane sustained any damage. God was watching, for sure.
When I was in high school a hundred years ago, I worked for our local airport in the summer. I got to flag for the crop duster planes. They would fly 3 feet off the crops. You’d wave a white flag on a 10 foot pole for them to line up on you then take 19 steps across the field and watch them fly 15 feet away from you. They’d bank hard and almost fly back on themselves. After getting to the end of the field, we’d jump in the pickup and bust butt to the next one while they refilled with chemicals. We’d start at 430 in the morning and go till it got too hot to spray. Go back out at 6pm and spray till dark. That was the best job I could have had. I’m 74 now and still miss it. Have fun kids. Keep up the great videos. Thanks.
@@loisrinehart6755 how about the Piper brave with a Lycoming 400 with 8 cylinders 👍🇺🇸
My in-laws are crop pilots and fly Air Tractors out in western Kansas. Makes me smile.
@astrogatorjones surely not near Ulysses ks
@@aviator2252 I know some guys out in Plains that occasionally fly around Ulysses.
@Skinflaps_Meatslapper buddy worked at north star as a&p
@@aviator2252 Oh, I know those guys! I check out their booth every year at conventions.
Used to watch the dusters over the cotton fields in Arizona. They dusted with DDT - we frolicked in it! I’m 75, hasn’t killed me yet.
No plane, please. Just watch and ride.
Here in the PNW, most of the Air Tractors have floats with water intakes and are used, usually in pairs, to drop water/retardant on fires, forests, wildland, and grains fields that burn from lighting strikes, bad train brakes, and humans. There have been a lot of flights in the last couple of weeks. The work with other much larger tanker planes, heliocopters, and smoke jumpers supporting the ground crews. Sadly lost a Fire Boss in Oregon a couple of weeks ago.
It's been 45 years now, and there was a farmer who grew acres of delicious sweet corn about a quarter mile from my house. We had a local crop sprayer plane airstrip about a quarter mile in the opposite direction. Every Sunday morning, the plane ( like the one in your video) took off flew low over my house, and we hear the plane make about 5-6 passes and then return to base. One morning, I heard the plane engine suddenly stop. I leaped out of bed and said, " he crashed." I drove to the corn field and saw the pilot walking. He said the morning sun blinded him, and he caught a wing in the tree line. Fortunately, he was okay.
Those pilots are amazing! Thanks for sharing an insider view of the crop-dusting industry -- it's quite interesting.
Thanks for taking us on the field trip! I was in aircraft maintenance while in the Air Force. I was a crew chief on a EB 57 A. I love anything aircraft related.
Thanks for your service!
@@Torsee you are welcome
As a licensed pilot of many years with no flying for a long time now, I thoroughly love it when a turbine Air Tractor roars across your property spraying the corn! I really enjoyed the episode when you went up in the little yellow Piper Cub (I love flying those too) for a hoon around his home base near Henderson. Glad to see you're still grinning as wide as Nebraska when he or others come back for another job! Cheers from David in NZL 😁🤣❤🛩
LOL, I managed to find the flight recording on Flight Radar as he was spraying the field across the road and over your house! His steep 180º turns at the end of a run are about a quarter mile wide!
Worked 2 summers for a crop duster in western Nebraska when I was in highschool. Lots of work and 16 hour days but I made a lot of money. He would get so low to the ground sometimes that we would pull suger beet leaves out of the rims of the plane.
What town ?
@@dustindugger315 Sounds like somewhere around Scottsbluff, NE.
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I once saw an insane crop duster fly under a power line... inverted. I'm guessing loads of experience, boredom and heaping dose of dare devil made him do it.
Flying those “dusters” takes so much talent and it’s very impressive to say the least.
Thanks for showing us what the planes look like inside and out intimately.
Your corns looking good!
Laura I have said this before........I have never seen a bigger smile on your face in all your videos than of the Time you went up in that Crop duster!!!!! You wanted to do that so bad......YOU WERE BEAMING!!!!! That sounds so much like WWII videos.
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I’m from east Arkansas and I’ve always loved watching the ag pilots in their air acrobatic displays. I have been traveling the highways and pulled to the shoulder just to watch. I especially liked it when they were flying the old biplanes.
Emeralds for eyes. Simply stunning. You and Grant are great influencers, teaching this country what it really takes to feed people. How can't anyone who see your work and understand Farmers are not a bunch of people in a field pulling weeds. You folks are some of the most important people working in this country to feed the masses, sophistacated and professional buisness Men and Women who have always made The United States of America great, and work so hard to fill our bellys. Thank you.
The crop dusting video was amazing.. They fly so fast and low it is thrilling to watch . Thanks for sharing it .
Back in the 1960's in Northwest Oklahoma yellow biplanes were the crop dusters. Loud slow but it was fun to watch them spray our wheat fields for green bugs.
The skill level of these pilots is off the chart. I have had pilot license for many years which helps me appreciate the skill level these pilots have.
My cousin was a crop-duster. He had a bar between the landing wheels with spray nozzles mounted on the bar. He'd come back with corn tassels caught in between the nozzle and the bar. He's retired now.
So cool, brings back great memories of my youth, I was what they called a flagger for the crop dusters. I would hold up a flag on a long pole and the plane would fly over and drop the fertilizer, then I would walk 17 steps and do it all over again. I turned that job into one working for the air service in Pullman, WA 1964 Part of my learning experience in life.
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Based on the year you're talking about, do you know the name Pete Fountain? He had a flying service out of Pullman-Moscow airport. I grew up on a wheat farm just north of Palouse. The flagging you used to do was eventually replaced by a dispenser attached to the plane that would drop a four-foot long piece of toilet paper (similar material) that had a square of cardboard attached. The pilot would drop those on each pass, and they would mark his run, showing him where he had just sprayed.
@@jeffreyhill8040 I was working in the 64-65 time frame, a local Doctor owned the service at that time. They would use the old steranes with the dual wings, very loud and powerful. You mentioned Palouse, one of the pilots flipped his pave over when he was landing, I was tole he hit some soft ground.
@@jeffreyhill8040 they were about eight or so feet long, so they would lay on top of the plants, but yeah it's all GPS now.
My wife's flight instructor was a crop duster for years and he owned many WWII fighter training planes and "dusted" with dust instead of liquid like they do now. I got to fly one of those planes. a Stearman PT-17, way back when and it is a blast to fly right above the ground even though you are only doing 100MPH or so.
You can find an aerobatics training center near you and get a ride in a two person plane that does as many wild things you can imagine.
Give it a try!
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Ok at least I know I'm not the only one who get's excited and giddy and wants to take all sorts of photos and videos when they dust at our house. I work a mile away from the QC airshow they put on each year, usually featuring either blue angles or thunderbirds along with F18s and F22s, so I'm used to this but it still never gets old.
The best is watching them crop dust on the hills of The Palouse. The way those pilot follow the contours of the ground is impressive.
Agreed. I'd love to find an operator out there to fly for. Occasionally I'll find similar terrain in Illinois to fly but it's rare and not as impressive, still fun though.
Love watching crop dusters especially when they dip down and all of a sudden pops up from nowhere
I grew up watching them. My Dad had a good friend who had his own duster. No mistakes permitted.
This why I love your channel! You take us on such interesting journeys! I thoroughly enjoy them all!!
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Awesome airplane.Air Tractor just started producing these for the military. Seems that if you empty/remove the spray tank/equipment, they can carry a lot of bombs and rockets.
Any time I see a crop duster I have to pull over and watch ..fascinating.
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That is amazing. I've seen it in real life years ago, but when he dropes down below a ridge, as if he's in crashing in the corn, unnerving.
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One of my best friends I grew up with flew crop dusters in the summers after HS graduation. I was home from college the second summer he was flying and he was in a two seat Piper Super Cub. I rode with hime a couple of times. It was awesome. We were spraying cotton in some fairly small fields surrounded by trees. So down for a short run then up, bank around and do it again. Better than a roller coaster. Later that summer he lost power pulling up and dumped it in some trees. He survived with only scratches and bruises. Plane was repaired and back in the air the next summer.
Grant, those planes are amazing. However they are no more amazing than some of the equipment y’all use.
Thanks for the videos.
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I was a truck driver. One time I was on the Ohio Turnpike and a crop duster went over and I could have sworn that he must my trailer by inches. I actually thought that he was going to land on it
Earlier this week I was on my way to Omaha and was watching all these crop dusters just about everywhere. I thought it was so cool watching them and I had all kinds of questions. Thanks for sharing this information.
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My pilot instructor was a crop duster in his youth it came with many benefits! I was desensitized to potential failures by experiencing many scenarios that he encountered. It was very reassuring. And fun!!! I love flying and highly recommend and you could have your own runway... come to think about it barns make great hangars.
Growing up and living 90 miles north of Sacramento, in the middle of ag country and 300,000 acres of rice, you might see 6 or 7 Ag Cats dusting/ applying seeds or treatments within a couple of miles of driving. It is awesome. As a teen, we had an airstrip next to our shop and helped load them. When they rev up and take off, there is nothing like it. And yes, over the years, we have lost a couple of pilots.
Laura you are a natural for being a pilot! It is not cheap but you definitely have the aptitude to do it. I got my PPL license in 1971. Kept upgrading and ended up with a commercial license with multi engine and instrument rating. So, sign up for a ground school after harvest.
If you would have chosen a military career, I could see you as another Kim Campbell. (Famous A-10 pilot)
Driving thru central Illinois today I saw a crop duster in action. Holy crap ! Just like Laura shows here, this guy was tickling the cornstalks and barely clearing the power lines (and cars on the road !) What an amazing thing to see.
I am 84 years young and my very first plane ride was in a bi-plane crop duster spraying strawberries in South Florida. That would have been in 1949. I will never forget the experience. Planes were a lot different back then though, No where as closest to the speed this guy is going. Exciting and would like to ride in that one but I don't think that those have 2 seats because of the extra weight.
That was a really cool video....seeing the fields getting sprayed.... Then seeing the planes close up....Stay safe and see you on the next one
Pratt and Whitney PT-6 Power on that Air Tractor! I pulled a magnetic chip detector out of the gear box on one and it had a gear tooth and a chunk of hub stuck to it. Other than the chip light illuminated that engine showed no performance issues. What a machine!
As we used to say at Beech flight test “Here we go trusting in God and Pratt and Whitney”
@@brianmee5398 In fact I used to work at a Beechcraft Dealership as an A&P before I went on to Engineering school. Sure would be fun to see Laura get a pilots license. Given the way she can handle one of those complex tractors she could probably handle a Super King Air.
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I work in agriculture and have been hauling fungicide to two of these air tractors for the last two or three weeks. It never gets old year after year.
A wonderful book of my youth by Robert Bach called Biplane talks about a summer flying in the Midwest. Great adventure for a young teen.
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I enjoyed today video very much. I live in an area where there is a lot of this activity, in fact there is a crop duster than operates from a location about 1/2 mile from me. All these years and I had never seen the inside of the planes cockpit ... until today. Very cool, thank you Laura and Grant for taking me along on today's adventures. See you on the next one. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
Years ago I connected with a group out of south of Jonesboro AR that converted Aig cats from piston to turbines. Built the TEP 331 turbines 43BL, 151 and some times -5 garrets to install on the Cats. They also built the SS spray bars.
I used to have a cousin of my dad's did that back a long time ago & I used to watch him when I was a kid & he would go right under the power lines. Talk about crazy & I cried some during the video. It just took me back to a more simple time
We actually have drones working our area now too as well as a helicopter, and 3-4 of these guys. It's my favorite thing to see here in Iowa next to sweet corn bein sold out of the backs of pickup trucks at the gas station.
Air Tractors are used in Western Australia as fire-figiting planes. Incredible pilots flying in challenging circumstances (smoke, updrafts from the fire etc).
Nice change of scenery Laura crop spraying and so accurate with this GPS location tool nothing missed.
I used to work for a Crop Duster in California . It really Is the most exciting job a pilot could have .
A friend of mine was a duster for about 20 years. He was also a house painter in his off season. He caught wires with his wheels and went straight to the ground, died.
I love watching spray planes /cropdusters there’s quite a lot over here in Australia also they do cotton farms and we’ve had one spraying our crops and also dropping mouse bait on our wheat and barley crops there’s just something about them that’s pretty awesome
I've played a lot with low and slow flight. These guys take it to a whole new level. There is a thing called "ground effect" where the flying charactoristics are completely different from just flying at a higher altitude. They have to transition from one to another without fail. In essence, the plane will fly just fine just above the ground at low speeds but when he pulls up for the turn the plane looses the ability to fly unless he has sufficient airspeed. It's a fine dance....
I grew up on a small ranch/farm. Our neighbors grew filberts. I remember fondly the crop dusters flying over the filberts, so close to treetops and power lines. Incredible to watch. Thanks for letting me see a modern crop duster up close.
Looked like one of our tow tugs from my Air Force days and there it was on the hood US Air Force!
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I could watch those guys and gals all day long. It takes a ton of focus and talent
Handling characteristics are different when the tanks are full compared to nearly empty. At low altitudes that is critical. I too love to watch them perform aerobatics especially if there are trees or high wires at the ends of the fields.
When I was a kid, we chopped cotton. We were supposed to move over several rows when the plane was dusting. One time I lay down in the row, so it flew right over me. That was before EPA and concern for toxic chemical exposure. All 7 of us are now in late 60's and 70's. None of us came down with cancers related to it.
But the father and uncle of my best friend both died of cancers. I always wondered if it was because of the chemicals. Both were farmers
I was trucking on I-40 through Arkansas and saw 2 of them working each side of the highway. It was awesome they made some low passes over traffic and put on quite a show for everyone. I made sure my windows were up because I didn’t want to breathe in any of that poison that they were spraying.
Here in SoCal we’ve seen low-flying fixed-wing and copters fighting fires. Same thrill!
Enjoyed the video; and there is also a lot of aerial spraying going on now here to the southeast of you in northern Missouri. While I have applied almost all of my own crop-protection chemicals/pesticides myself I have also custom-hired, aerial applicators occasionally. What I really like about this post is both of you going to the airport north of town on hwy. 14 to let us viewers get a close-up of one of the planes. Laura, you did great filming the controls and the cockpit; and Grant, I sure did like the walk-around and explaining what you are looking at as another farmer like myself. I see the F100, Super Sabre, Air Force fighter jet is still on display at the entrance; and I have went by there many times after delivering at Iams west of Aurora on US34.
There used to be a cropduster in our area of west central IL that used to be a chopper pilot in NAM. When he came to the end of a field he would go UNDER the power lines. Many times he flipped his plane in the lines of main power lines on the towers and the plane would be suspended laying across the lines. Once he came out of a field at an intersection and went under the lines and was head on with a car on the road. When he banked to miss the car his wing clipped the stop sign. When the plane hit the ground, he climbed out and said "I guess I haul it home again". When NTSB tore down the engine for their inspection; they found no internal damage, just one half of the prop snapped off. He had the engine stopped before he hit the ground. When he dusted beans his wheels would occasionally brush the bean plants.
Now days, after his second crash his licsense would be gone. No insurance, no spraying....
That's cool. Around here, we had the same thing done. Our corn is 8' tall and so thick with the timely rain. You can barely walk into the fields. Cool video, Grant and Laura.
My neighbor across the road used crop dusters for many years. I always enjoyed watching them.
I grew up close to the aerodrome in a country town in New Zealand where the crop dusting planes took off from. The first person to do aerial crop dusting was a New Zealander. I had a friend whose father flew a converted DC3 crop duster, that carried a huge load. We have very little flat land, much of the crop dusting and seeding is done in hill country here.
For me as a European living person, this is so cool that I litterally is jumping as a little kid together with you, the sound of that white cropduster taxing gave me goosebumps, amazing, I cant put it to words how fun it was to see it behind the scenes at the airport!
They dont crop dust in Europe? This is a regular occurrence every summer in the US and Canada.
@@ralphvelthuis2359 No, its forbidden in the European Union, and before that a very limited amount of countries has done it, we are pretty concerned with chemicals and stuff here in Europa, so the smallest risk can cause it to get forbidden as so much else here
Nobody applies toxic dusts in the US anymore either, it's all liquid spraying.
@@oneninerniner3427 Hehe, well its a bit hard to think that you do, especially since all videos here talks about mixing water and chemicals
And this is still toxic, there´s no doubt about it, also its not like applying spots with a sprayer, but that would be very hard with the corn being this high
Laura, your videos always make me happy and ready for the day. Keep up the great Content!
Crop dusters have big horse power to carry a big load. A State Trooper in Florida had a second job and a Crop Dusters Airplane. I watched him go from one field to another across the road and under the power lines!
Several decades ago, we were in Scottsbluff for a Babe Ruth baseball Regional and a crop duster plane was dusting the cornfield behind our motel. Then, all of a sudden, the plane disappeared. What we did not realize was a potential tornado was bearing down on us. These pilots are AMAZING!! Brought back some wonderful memories. Thanks for this video!
Those Air Tractors are super cool. I've been to the factor where they make them in Onley, TX. If you think those are big, you should see the fire fighting 802 Fire Boss on the floats.
Also, while spraying with airplanes is cool. And common in areas like yours where there are wide open spaces, check out a helicopter spraying operation sometime. They work of loading trucks that travel with the helicopters as they move from field to field, so they don't need to return to the airport to resupply or refuel. The helicopters can get into tighter fields than the planes.
I watched them fertilizing mountain sheep pastures in New Zealand on the way home from a day of skiing. . They land load and do it right on th field. Maneuvering in the mountains. Is so amazing. Thanks Laura this is so cool.
you two can grow anything. corn looks great. thank goodness this country has young farmers committed to feeding us. thank you!
I live in Louisiana and there's such a drastic difference in the corn crop from here to there yalls corn is just starting to make and ours is not far from harvest we'll be cutting corn in two to three weeks here
Watching the refueling ops reminds me of AF jets “hot pit” refueling and munitions reloaded was always an awesome sight is it was very choreographed with safety and precision to get back in the air. Thanks for sharing!
Here’s an idea for y’all :-)
Next year, ask the pilot if you can hook up your GoPro to the plane :-)
Then you will have all that aerial view of your property.
To be honest it's not the machine that is precise it is the human that is operating it with great skills that make it precise
Here for this!! Thanks for sharing a bit about our industry in such a positive way, Laura!! We'd love to have you guys visit our operation in ND someday!
I would absolutely love to !!
Pretty cool. I knew a guy decades ago who started crop dusting when he was still a teenager in Vernon, Texas. Unfortunately he hit some power lines once and crashed but survived with minor injuries.
My father in law was a crop sprayer ( started using a Super Cub and ended up using Ag Trucks.) we did everything from spraying chemicals to granular fertilizing to seeding our Canola....you could seed a lot of Canola acres in an hour.
Our little town of Graham Texas is about 30 miles from where the Air Tractor is made.The airport here had a small air show. Three Air Tractor flew in and it was the first time I ever saw a plane back into a parking space. Love watching them working.
When I was a young man my future wife lived on a farm about 20 miles south of town. One Saturday evening an Ag Tractor was spraying the end of the rows across the rows next to the highway. I saw hm make his turn to came back for the last pass as I approached the field. I sped up to a little over 105 MPH and passed him as he came in low to spray. I show him a thumbs up and a short wave and he looked over and saw me pass him. Waved back and finished the field and flew to the next one. Great memory!!
Must not have been an Air Tractor then, we fly across the field at anywhere from 130-170mph. Could've been a Pawnee though.
Those pilots are amazing. My mother was a WASP during WW2. 1944-1945. She towed targets for ground gunnery practice with a P-40. Lots of stories....
I visited the Wasp museum in Sweetwater Tx a few weeks ago. Interesting place with wonderful exhibits. Those women played an important part in the war effort. Thank you for your mother's service.
@@philipmcdaniel4328 Thank you....
Thanks so much for being so informative. I've wondered about so much of this. Amazing that a fully loaded one of these weighs the same as a WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt.
Very cool Here in northern California, in addition to using crop dusters to spray the fields, they are used to the plant rice fields.
These planes are so cool
My dad scaled up planes from a RC model magazine and built an agwagon it’s a super cool plane
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The PT6A engine on the Ag airplanes are my favorite. I have over 35 years working on all kinds of airplanes with that engine, super reliable.
I was in the Navy and we flew in P3's chasing subs and would fly as low as 100 feet off the ocean depending on the conditions. Once we flew by a carrier and were below the carrier deck.... Our plane had a length of 116 ft, wing span of 99 ft. and we could fly up to 16 hrs when we shut down to 2 engines. Fantastic plane. This guys are fantastic pilots...
My dad spent 18 of his 24 years in the Navy here in Brunswick Maine working on P-3's. VP-8 and VP-11 as well as 2 shore duty tours CPW-5 and FASO.
@@toche207 Yep, P-3s were a small community, knew a few people from VP-8 over the years. We used to make Lobster runs on occasion when we needed "to test the engines" from NAS Jax. LOL
The Air Tractor is manufactured in Olney TX. They give tours to school's you may be able to go on a tour
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No experience with the AT- 802A(Ag), but have depended of AT- 802AF SEAT(Single Engine Air Tanker) to help us manage Wildland fires many many times! They carry up to 800 gals of retardant or water. Air Tractor also builds an amphibious model (Fire Boss)designed to load their tank by scooping out of lakes and reservoirs. Sadly the fire service recently lost two SEAT pilots.
The Cessna 188 AgTruck is one of the coolest planes ever made... Second only to the Pilatus PC-12 NG. If you got your private pilot certificate and instrument rating, complex and high performance endorsements you'll never regret it! Just having your private pilot certificate alone is something that changes your life. A TON of farmers buy J-3 Cubs (the small plane you and Grant flew in) and have their own grass fields that they fly out of... It does help you to get a birds eye view of whats going on in your fields AND its a ton of fun flying low and slow in the evenings after being in the fields all day, just letting your door be open and feeling the wind. Nothing like it. If y'all do that, you DEFINITELY need to make videos of your flight training!
I have one in my hangar that I'll sell you, I'm not a fan. Looks kinda neat from a distance I guess, like a Stuka or something. We call them fart carts.
It’s sweet seeing these guys up close. I grew up in the Willamette Valley- Oregon the sounds of an old bi plane dusting fields with the big old Radials - oh man sounds so good and totally brings back memories. Now they run these turbo props or some guys have Flat 6’s sounds like a Porsche flying around in the air. Also you can really feel the plane like Grant said.
I was living outside of Phoenix, and one night, a helicopter was flying around the field next to me. I thought someone's house was getting raided lol, then I realized he was spraying the fields, lol.
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The company I work for has a sister company that makes the spray and dry spreaders for these aircraft. They also have a water spreader that can be installed so they can help fight grass fires. The company is called Transland and they’re in Wichita Falls Texas. They also make a military version that has guns and if I remember correctly it can drop bombs like the WW-2 planes.
Great shots from crop duster airshow! As former Swiss Air Force pilot want to encourage you two to go for your private licence - with all the space you‘ve got - go for it 😊 Just back from a flight in an open seater „Bücker“ aircraft over the Swiss mountains….can‘t get any better! Love your videos - greetings from Switzerland - Rudy
In northwest Florida at the Eglin test center they are testing a version of this airplane that will be sold as a light ground attack aircraft.
I love to watch the crop dusters in my area of Indiana. But unfortunately our community lost one of our young pilots this week while doing the job he loved. He was a 6th generation farmer and a hell of a good guy. RIP Ray
Was he the one that went down in Oxford? I was flying just on the other side of the border in the Rantoul/Hoopeston area when I heard about it.
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We have them come to our family farm. It’s really neat to watch. Last year they mapped the fields with drones. A month later they came in with 3 spray drones and sprayed fungicide on the corn. Loved the video!😊
I live in northern Indiana and seem to be in the turn around area for 2 different farms. I am not as close as you two but it's still interesting to watch.