Under Attack

[Matt Meiser]

A couple hours ago I heard a really loud plane noise and went out to see my shop under attack.

Yes, he actually flew under the power lines in the last shot.

[Steve Clardy]

Crop duster pilots are brave souls

[Jim Becker]

'Hope you put on your respirator while you were being attacked!! LOL

[scott spencer]

That's really cool Matt.

Reminds me of a time in the mid 1980's on Conesus Lake in western NYS. The day before an air show about 6 miles west of us, a B17 bomber escorted by two fighters that I guessed to be P-51 Mustangs came roaring down the lake firing blanks and headed straight towards us standing on the north shore....strangest thing! :eek: We later learned that the bomber was named Fuddy Duddy.

[Von Bickley]

Crop duster pilots are brave souls

I don't know if I would call it brave....:D

[Matt Meiser]

The only time I've been more suprised to see an airplane was on 9/12/01. Apparently a guy took off from the Ann Arbor airport and claimed he didn't know that there was a ground stop. We saw him just as he was intercepted by two fighter jets.

I've lived in this area for almost 30 years now and this is only the second time I remember a crop duster.

[Dave Sinkus]

Here's a chance to make a big 'ol fly swatter, probably out of maple or ash :D

Those crop dusters are fun to watch, unless you are down wind.

[Tim Wagner]

get out the lazer pointer. :eek:

[Doug Shepard]

Years ago I frequently had to drive the road on the south edge of Selfridge Air National Guard base. Every once in a while one of those huge (C-130 ??) cargo planes would be coming in for a landing a hundred feet or so over the road (and my car). That's a shorts-changing experience.

[Kyle Kraft]

Better living through chemistry!!

[Tyler Howell]

Please No Please,
The paper work involved with a crunched aircraft is huge.:eek: :eek:

[Al Willits]

Spent two years in the Rio Grande Valley TX and got out to the local airport where the Confederate Air Force was, seen some pretty interesting aircraft out there.

Not sure which was more spectacular, the big WW2 planes or the NASA small jet that went almost vertical about a quarter the way down the runway and disappeared in a matter of seconds....someone was in a hurry...:)

Al

[John Schreiber]

Most flying is hours and hours of boredom, punctuated with moments of sheer terror.

Aerial applicators (the preferred name for crop dusters) only have the second part of that equation. I know some of them actually have blades attached to the front of the landing gear so that if they hit a fence or a power line, they just might cut the wire rather than get wrapped up in it.

[Matt Meiser]

This field must be particularly scary. Those high voltage power lines run along one side of the field and some woods are at the end, perpendicular to the power lines and then wrapping around to be parallel to the power lines.

[Carl Eyman]

Matt, my shop is next to a sugar cane field and starting next month I'll have a visit from the dusters pretty regularly. I've been trying to get a picture for several years now, but never seem to have the camera at the right time.

I don't know what they are spraying in your case, but with cane it is either fertilizer or a herbicide just before harvest.