[Leica] crop spraying

[Jim Nichols]

You are right, Don.  Those chemicals were dangerous.  I knew an old-time 
Stearman sprayer pilot down in North Mississippi whose hopper cover 
popped open, allowing chemicals to get into his face.  He crash landed 
alongside a creek so he could wash it out of his eyes.  He had bad scars 
across his nose from contact with the instrument panel.  He had the 
Stearman fuselage in the rafters of his hangar, and went back to work 
after acquiring a Piper SuperCub sprayer.

On 11/28/20 5:26 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.11.22.html
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> Sonny
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Jim Nichols
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