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RC helicopter for crop dusting.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...019#post137834
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.
Would much rather ride with that pilot, than the one that flies straight, if someone is shooting at us!!!
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.