In the 1970's, there were five crop dusting businesses in our small town of 1793 people. By 2000, there were none thanks to modern high-boy sprayers. A couple within a 100 mile radius are still in business spaying when it's too wet and small jobs here and there spraying for mosquitoes.
Love watching Sky Tractors work. Best damn flying there is. Many yrs ago, I watched one performing airobatics in the evening sunlit sky after a day of dusting. What a great way to relax from a job that requires absolute concentration.
Pratt and Whitney PT6 turboprop power. The PT6 is an air coupled reverse flow turboprop engine that has the hot section in front with an aircoupled power turbine running the prop gear box. The compressor is in back. It is a very reliable engine.
If you lived in a farming community back in the 1960s-1980s, you wouldn't as these crop dusters were constantly buzzing in the air from sunup to 9-10 a.m. before the winds picked up and would cause spray drift. You could never sleep later than 5:45 a.m. in summer or about 6:30 in the spring and fall. But new technology has replaced most of them as farmers can use spray tractors/high-boys to do it, for the most part, themselves since the 1990s.
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That AOA is VERY aggressive! Great skills from this pilot!
In the 60's, a guy flew between powerpoles under lines on the hiway for 11 miles. Didn't get alot older tho.
My oldest son was a pilot and was offered a job flying crop dusters.
Great video Cale
In the 1970's, there were five crop dusting businesses in our small town of 1793 people. By 2000, there were none thanks to modern high-boy sprayers. A couple within a 100 mile radius are still in business spaying when it's too wet and small jobs here and there spraying for mosquitoes.
Wow, pilot must be really concentrated!!
Dated the widow of a duster pilot that hit a powerline.
A dying profession. Soon drones will rule the agricultural skies
Love watching Sky Tractors work. Best damn flying there is. Many yrs ago, I watched one performing airobatics in the evening sunlit sky after a day of dusting. What a great way to relax from a job that requires absolute concentration.
That looks like fun! Must be an awesome job to have. Kept worrying the wheels would hit those powerlines!
“Look Mom, no hands!” 🤣😂🤣😂
Pratt and Whitney PT6 turboprop power. The PT6 is an air coupled reverse flow turboprop engine that has the hot section in front with an aircoupled power turbine running the prop gear box. The compressor is in back. It is a very reliable engine.
That video could have been 2 hours long and I would still be glued in watching. Just the power of the engine...Great video!!
If you lived in a farming community back in the 1960s-1980s, you wouldn't as these crop dusters were constantly buzzing in the air from sunup to 9-10 a.m. before the winds picked up and would cause spray drift. You could never sleep later than 5:45 a.m. in summer or about 6:30 in the spring and fall. But new technology has replaced most of them as farmers can use spray tractors/high-boys to do it, for the most part, themselves since the 1990s.
looks dangerous
Nuf said about that!
The old Strearmans were slower but could do a chandelle turn in the width of a gravel road.
Ace pilot
Cale was that a pawnee brave sprayer? I had an uncle inlaw that sold air tractors as well as other planes.
COOL!!
I do not want his job...
Put a camera in the airplane
Zoom zoom.
Too wet to get in there?