Posted: 5/2/2017 5:04:06 PM EDT
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Not the nasty bastard in the cubicle next to you.
The airplane kind. Every fucking year this som'bish manages to startle the high holy crap out of me. Out on the deck, on the phone, this guy crosses my roofline at about 75' AGL 
I'm gonna get the Barret and see if he's as impressed as I am. 
PS- It's not gonna help if I use blanks, right? 
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OR you could just sit back and enjoy some fine stick and rudder (and copious amounts of power) skill.
Years and years ago I was at a NASCAR race in Atlanta. It was when the B1s were still at Robbins I guess. They had a BONE doing the flybys that day. Of course it was freaking awesome because B1. Anyways, He did several passes and then left. But he didn't. That SOB did a "sneak" from over the turn 4 condominium that about made my shit myself. I was sitting next to my Dad (retired F4 driver) and when I looked over at him, he had the biggest shit eating grin I've ever seen him wear. Protip: Flying down to the track in Atlanta instead of driving is NOT quicker on the way home. Holy fucking traffic jamb trying to get out of Tara Field. |
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Driving the freeway east of Boise last year was awesome. We stopped at a rest area, just to watch the crop duster doing his thing.
He passed over power lines @ what looked like just a couple of feet, over and over. All I can say is - not a hell of a lot of margin of error there! |
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Not the nasty bastard in the cubicle next to you. The airplane kind. Every fucking year this som'bish manages to startle the high holy crap out of me. Out on the deck, on the phone, this guy crosses my roofline at about 75' AGL
I'm gonna get the Barret and see if he's as impressed as I am.
PS- It's not gonna help if I use blanks, right? You no like my airpwane? 
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Not the nasty bastard in the cubicle next to you. The airplane kind. Every fucking year this som'bish manages to startle the high holy crap out of me. Out on the deck, on the phone, this guy crosses my roofline at about 75' AGL
I'm gonna get the Barret and see if he's as impressed as I am.
PS- It's not gonna help if I use blanks, right? Wonder how harmful the chemicals are. They don't discriminate and I'm sure I have been dusted numerous times. |
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Before we converted them, these were both crop dusters. Not a great pic, but me in the PT17, and Bob (the owner of both) in the YPT15 flying very low over a friends house. http://m6.i.pbase.com/o2/72/325172/1/128224856.thN4KjGB.MeAndBob.jpg 
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Night Crop Dusting! Balls as big as church bells!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10BYCPrxgsM |
Russel Case
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http://i.imgur.com/hQMVDSw.jpg
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Wonder how harmful the chemicals are. They don't discriminate and I'm sure I have been dusted numerous times. 
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Wonder how harmful the chemicals are. They don't discriminate and I'm sure I have been dusted numerous times. |
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Chemicals are regulated by the EPA and must be rated for aerial application, and I believe the FDA also has regulations for pesticide residue on plants. Pretty sure if handling the concentrated chemicals hasn't killed me by now the 3-4:1 dilution with water isn't going to be as bad. We've also had GPS guidance in our planes for the last decade+ so that we can be a little more discriminatory Quoted:
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Wonder how harmful the chemicals are. They don't discriminate and I'm sure I have been dusted numerous times. We had to totally strip and epoxy coat the "birdcage" inside and out, that finally got rid of the smell.... |
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Attached File THAT GUY!
There's a gravel/tarmac strip mile or so from the house, where Cenex has AV fuel and a mixing tank. I've watched 'em land & such. About a mile the other direction, there's a tall bluff with a pretty commanding view, folks used to picnic there and watch them fog the fields. Yum 
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I live on a farm and I'm surrounded by a lot of other farms, I see these guys a lot, but we have ours done by helicopter from time to time. They used to fly under the power lines but they've gotten softer over the years. |
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Chemicals are regulated by the EPA and must be rated for aerial application, and I believe the FDA also has regulations for pesticide residue on plants. Pretty sure if handling the concentrated chemicals hasn't killed me by now the 3-4:1 dilution with water isn't going to be as bad. We've also had GPS guidance in our planes for the last decade+ so that we can be a little more discriminatory 
The military has pumped more shit in me than trace element poisoning will cause. PB Tabs, Anthrax shots, and 87 different vaccines for 3 different regions, 5 months at the Iraq nuke site, no radiac badge. And people ask why I still smoke cigarettes. 
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I worked for the local one here that was a college educated aerospace engineer and had a wall of air racing trophies. He also collected rare military stuff and restored rare military planes. Had tank engines on stands and crated fuselages in his shops.
He goes hard when he flies. Very fun to watch. Except when you watch and remember that he has the wreckage behind his shop of the race plane his uncle died in. You mow around it every week. Lol. |
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Chemicals are regulated by the EPA and must be rated for aerial application, and I believe the FDA also has regulations for pesticide residue on plants. Pretty sure if handling the concentrated chemicals hasn't killed me by now the 3-4:1 dilution with water isn't going to be as bad. We've also had GPS guidance in our planes for the last decade+ so that we can be a little more discriminatory 
I spent a couple summers flagging for an aerial spraying company when I was in high school. You're supposed to cover yourself with the flag if you get caught up in the swath. And if you get bit by a rattlesnake, take off your shirt and wave it at the end of your flag pole. Not so the pilot can radio for help, but so he knows you're probably not where you're supposed to be.
Hard work, but good times. There was a camaraderie among the spray crews that I've really only seen in the military since then. |
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Was leaving a Dover NASCAR race back in the late 80's when my friend took a shortcut to beat traffic.
We didn't beat traffic, but I got to watch a Grumman AgCat crop dust a field for about five or ten minutes. Absolutely beautiful the way he dove and climbed and turned, all at the same time. I could watch that all day long. |
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My first Father in Law, was a Crop Duster, among other things. Flew an AgCat from his grass field. Dude was an awesome pilot. Flew cargo at night. His commute was flying to the airport from the grass strip in his back yard.
Anyways….. I mixed chemicals for him, every now and then. Watching him fly was as cool as watching any high end flight group. Over this, under that, around whatever the fuck, landing on a levee with wires above and on the side. My (first) wife, the (cunt) would flag for him. The fun he had, makes me think that anyone with the stones to do do it, would do it for fuel. Good times. |
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802u Air Tractor, made here in Texas....
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I worked for the local one here that was a college educated aerospace engineer and had a wall of air racing trophies. He also collected rare military stuff and restored rare military planes. Had tank engines on stands and crated fuselages in his shops. He goes hard when he flies. Very fun to watch. Except when you watch and remember that he has the wreckage behind his shop of the race plane his uncle died in. You mow around it every week. Lol. |
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The airplane kind?
There are mad cropdusters on airplanes. Especially international flights. Red eye to Amsterdam? More like pink eye from all the fart-propelled poop in the air. Complete fartfest. I can deal with it because I usually have a row to myself...... ...and because I'm the one dustin' the crops. |
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The airplane kind?  Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Official Video) |
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Around 1978 my dad called me to the airport to take a look at his next challenge.
A Thrush Commander cut through a telephone pole and kept flying. Pushed about 6 feet of the leading edge right up to the main spar. Pilot flew it back to the airport and it took 3 months to repair the wing. They are a VERY tough flying machine. |
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You guys ain't lived until you've been blown out of your bed at 6:00am on the weekend by a radial-engined Ag-Cat taking off over your house.
That was my experience from the time I was eight until I graduated high school. When I was eight we moved out of town a few miles out into the countryside. There was an agricultural airstrip directly across the road from our house. Weekends during springtime we didn't need alarm clocks, they were there like clockwork. Seeing and hearing all those inline Air Tractors now, I kinda miss those 600 hp Ag-Cats, they were awe-inspiring. LC |