Airplanes and Farming

I bet you never thought that planes would be a part of farming? Maybe some of you knew that they are used. Personally Mr. Farmer uses a buggy type sprayer which is like a super skinny tractor with wings (ours doesn't fly it stays put, with it's tires firmly on the ground:). But some local farms hire a pilot to top dress the fields and then they don't have to deal with it. It's really quick and super cool. My grandfather used to crop dust. He was a farmer his whole life and he was quite artistic when it came to flying. In fact it's been said he flew his old crop duster like he was a stunt pilot.... He was a pilot in WWII so I think he took alot of those maneuvers home with him and applied them to crop dusting. Whether he needed to barrel roll or not he would do it!!!
So the other night I was on my way home from my 9 to 5 job. (Heading to my 24-7 J.O.B) And I noticed this sweet little crop duster zipping around. And he reminded me so much of they way my Grandfather used to fly. This guy could do some pretty amazing things with his "bird." He was flipping and zipping. He did so many extra maneuvers while he was spraying that I would have thought my Grandfather was flying that plane. It was heavenly watching him. while I sat along the side of the road watching him flip and stall out and then zip back up. I remembered that I had my camera in my work bag! Lucky me!!
My shots aren't what I wanted, because he was so fast and I'm so slow. But I did the best I could. I wish you all could have experienced the sensation of a plane flying toward you at about 60 miles an hour and 10 to 15 feet above the ground. Holy Cow it's such a RUSH!!! I could literally feel the earth shaking under my feet as he was buzzing me. WOW!!! My adrenaline was totally rushing!

I want to learn how to fly now!! I think I should get my license this summer!!!

This was so close to me! He was just barely above the power lines!

Getting ready to start spraying.

You can barely see him above the corn. Because I'm so freaking short I couldn't shoot above the corn.

You can almost see the spray coming out.

This is the roof of the barn my great uncle Built AGES ago!! And I swear he flew so close it looked like he was going to fly right thorough it!

I don't know how to blow this up or I would so you could see how close he ended up coming to me.

I threw this in so you could get a bit of the scale of how tall the corn actually was. I'm 5ft 4in and the corn was a tad taller then me. So the plane was barely 15 feet off the ground!