Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/28

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Subject: [Leica] crop spraying
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:26:58 -0600
References: <B2E2AE0B-F18E-4AA4-91FE-9EFBDCB3E4B9@cartersxrd.net> <CAFfkXxv8+7+LHgEEh5gJDvaDh1o7Mma5nb3w_yQZqQs04xKUxQ@mail.gmail.com>

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
> >
> > Ric Carter
> > www.2020.CartersXRd.net
> > http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
> >
> > -the world?s mosst careless typist-
> >
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>
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] crop spraying)
In reply to: Message from cartersxrd at gmail.com (RicCarter) ([Leica] crop spraying)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] crop spraying)