[Leica] crop spraying

Don Dory don.dory at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 15:26:58 PST 2020


I remember them dusting cotton south of Greenville MIssissippi.  The fields
were flat but the power lines were run at random to the sharecroppers
shacks.  I guess they were low enough to the ground to survive most
crashes: most of the time they were spraying chemicals to contro boll
weevils so not too survivable.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 5:14 PM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I don’t know if they do it there, but here they bring in several planes,
> and at the airport, they set up a refueling truck and a tanker that reloads
> the spray.  Then as the planes finish spraying their load, they land and
> get in line for a reload, the fly away again.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 5:05 PM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I never lose my fascination with flying, especially these farm
> > daredevils-gallery at the link.
> >
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