The Huff-Daland Duster was designed in 1925 for a new method of controlling agricultural insect pests, aerial crop dusting. The Huff-Daland Manufacturing Company modified its sturdy Petrel military ...

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And with aircraft such as the Air Tractor 502XP, a turbine-powered workhorse worth over $1 million, it’s easy to see how the industry has progressed since the early days of crop dusting when ...

Crop dusting pilots are some of the most notable unsung heroes in the aviation industry, and boast a tight-knit community . ... as many crop dusting aircraft are set up in such a configuration.

According to writer and defense expert Joseph Trevithick, the idea of a crop-duster converted into an attack aircraft—one like the Iomax Archangel—came out of these earlier uses.

In addition to crop dusting, Transland promoted the AG-2 as a potential firefighting plane. Fighting wildfires using air drops from planes had first been used in 1955. These improvements and ...

This week Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reported on an autonomous, electric crop duster in California. It reminded him of the last time he did a story about a crop duster. It was 2019 in Mississippi.

An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane used for special operations, an announcement that comes as watchdogs ...

The AT-802U Sky Warden light attack aircraft has officially entered low-rate ... the original Air Tractor AT-802 aircraft on which the Sky Warden is based first flew in the 1990s as a crop duster.