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.
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.
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.
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 AOA is VERY aggressive! Great skills from this pilot!
Great video Cale
“Look Mom, no hands!” 🤣😂🤣😂
In the 60's, a guy flew between powerpoles under lines on the hiway for 11 miles. Didn't get alot older tho.
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.
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.
My oldest son was a pilot and was offered a job flying crop dusters.
That looks like fun! Must be an awesome job to have. Kept worrying the wheels would hit those powerlines!
Wow, pilot must be really concentrated!!
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.
Dated the widow of a duster pilot that hit a powerline.
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.
COOL!!
Ace pilot
Nuf said about that!
looks dangerous
A dying profession. Soon drones will rule the agricultural skies
Cale was that a pawnee brave sprayer? I had an uncle inlaw that sold air tractors as well as other planes.
I do not want his job...
The old Strearmans were slower but could do a chandelle turn in the width of a gravel road.
Zoom zoom.
Put a camera in the airplane
Too wet to get in there?