OT. Spray Pilot on Fuel Cost etc.

[Dean Hoffman]

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" American Greatness is the leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism " ...

I'll pass on that link .. John T.

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Compound this with shortage of food from the Ukraine this fall.

[Dean Hoffman]

This is just another example of technology making things better. I had a summer job almost a half century ago flagging for the planes. We'd stand at the end of the field to show the pilot which line to follow on his next pass. We'd walk out of the way once the pilot established his line always staying upwind.

[rbowman]

An ag pilot taught me to fly. While he took all reasonable precautions there's always some drift. Someone who moved to Vermont to establish his dream organic farm was really pissed by the free insecticide.

I liked orbiting at 600' agl or so and watching John work the fields with his old Thrush. That plane could do some amazing things pulled along by its 9 cylinder P&W radial engine.

[Dean Hoffman]

This guy flew out of Gothenburg, NE. The Platte Valley has more than its share of trees and power lines.

[rbowman]

I think John walked home a couple of times after parking the plane in a tree. Flying in Vermont is mostly mountain flying. His sage advice if you were going in was to imagine the tree tops were a grass field and land on them. Then try not to kill yourself climbing down.

Then I took a contract in Ft. Wayne. No mountains, land almost anywhere. Scared the hell out of me. I really liked something on the horizon than more soybean fields.