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During 1953, Fred Weick was approached by Piper to become a consultant on the agricultural version of the PA-18, the PA-18A, in particular to design and test a distributor for dust and seeds. [1] A few weeks later, Piper sponsored Texas A&M University to design a dedicated agricultural aircraft based on the AG-1 but to use as many PA-18A and PA ...
The CA-28 was a crop spraying aircraft of the 1950s. Aerial spraying has been controversial since the 1960s, due to environmental concerns about pesticide drift (raised for example by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring). It is now often subject to restrictions, for example spraying pesticide is generally banned in Sweden, although exceptions ...
Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik ("Crop Duster") Sweden. Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub as Flygplan 51, 1958–1974; Dornier Do 27 as Flygplan 53, 1962–1991;
Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the pilots and leaving the other with life-threatening injuries ...
Specialist crop dusters such as the Schweizer Agcat emerged in America in the mid-1950s, designed for the flat mid-west. These generally had poorer forward vision and lesser payload to weight ratios than the Fletcher, which continued to dominate the New Zealand market—however, in places where aircraft primarily were used to drop insecticide ...
The Texas A&M College Ag-1 was a prototype single seat, single engine aircraft, one of the first specifically designed for agricultural spraying, dusting and fertilizer spreading. It was the first of a series of designs that led to the Piper PA-25 Pawnee .
This crop-dusting plane was videoed on July 18, 2020, spraying fields south of Tippecanoe County Road 500 South. OXFORD, Ind. ― A 35-year-old man crop dusting in southeastern Benton County died ...
Two months ago, the 62-year-old man told a sheriff’s office investigator he had flipped off a different pilot while holding a firearm because he thought they were flying too low.