Agricultural aviation began in the 1920s to combat pests like the boll weevil in cotton fields. The Delta puffers were among the first planes used for aerial dusting, marking the start of a new ...

The R550 Sprayhawk can carry up to 110 gal. of payload and cover more than 200 acres per hour. Credit: Rotor Technologies Brazilian civil aviation regulator ANAC has approved the use of uncrewed ...

In 2020, Hector Xu fulfilled a longstanding dream and learned to fly helicopters. An MIT postdoctoral researcher at the time, Xu took lessons at an airport in Nashua, New Hampshire, on helicopters ...

Unmanned aircraft developer Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial ...

Until I heard from Carlos Gomez, I hadn’t given much thought to agricultural aviation, more commonly known as crop dusting, and its relation to the South Bay. Gomez mentioned his father Antonio once ...

ENID — The pilot of a crop dusting airplane who died early Tuesday in a crash in a wheat field just outside of the Enid city limits has been identified by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Rodney Sherry, ...

Besides crop dusting, the assessment, care and management of crops has largely remained on the ground with the farmer. But researchers at Idaho State University are seeking to change that age-old ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Huff-Daland Duster was designed in 1925 for a new method of controlling agricultural insect pests, aerial crop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Z-137 plane armed with air-to-air missiles flies over Ukraine. As the war in Ukraine drags on, Ukrainian forces have apparently ...