Crop dusters — or aerial applicators, which is their official name — also say they need thick skin to cope with what they call misinformation against their businesses. Environmentalists peg them as ...

YUMA — The crop-duster, that icon of both aviation and agricultural history, brings several images to mind. There's the wild-eyed barnstormer in a biplane who buzzes in low over houses and onto the ...

Top Gun undoubtedly had some of the best air-to-air combat scenes ever put on film, but watching crop duster pilot Butch Fisher skim this field and then barely pull up in time to miss a towering tree ...

Experience the thrill of flying a crop duster. See the precision and skill required to maneuver over fields for effective ...

CLARA CITY, Minn. — Just a couple of weeks before a memorial ride will take place for Derek “Hooty” DuHoux, the National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the July 25, 2023, ...

A crop duster landed upside down in a cane field south of Lockport. According to Lockport Volunteer Fire Department’s Fire Chief Armand Autin, a crop duster spraying insecticides on cane fields “soft ...

BALLINGER, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Some innovative applications of new technology are changing the farming landscape here in the Big Country, where, instead of the traditional crop duster aircraft, you ...

Deliveries of the Pyka Pelican 2 UAV to Brazil are to begin in August 2025. Credit: Pyka Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor. The ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Oklahoma's crop dusters are flying again after weathering federal rules in recent days that left them grounded and some of them frustrated. The planes were parked Sunday because ...

DOVER, Ind. (WISH) — Details shared publicly were few, but the Boone County Sheriff’s Office revealed Wednesday that a crop duster was shot Friday. In a news release, the office said the crop duster ...

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 ...