RC helicopter for crop dusting - GIF

[Jon]

RC helicopter for crop dusting.




Previously:

Helicopter crop sprayer refilling from tanker platform - GIF

[Paul Alciatore]

That is neat.

If you ever have the opportunity to watch a crop dusting plane in action do take advantage of it. Those guys are completely, certifiablely mad.

The only worse pilots I have ever encountered were US Army helicopter pilots in Vietnam. I once sat in the back seat of a Huey with the sun making a circle in one open door on one side and the spot where we were landing making a circle in the opposite, OPEN door. And I could not find the seat belt. I think my fingerprints are still in the bottom of the metal tube at the front edge of that seat. And that performance was repeated seven or eight times in a flight of less than 100 miles. Never hitch a ride on the mail chopper in a combat zone.

[hemmjo]

Would much rather ride with that pilot, than the one that flies straight, if someone is shooting at us!!!

[albertq]

Now being taken over by autopiloted GPS tracked drones with spray pattern overlaid onto the Google earth mapped field. Much less skill required for drone than flying a radio controlled and quite expensive helicopter.