Crop dusting pilots are unsung heroes vital to agriculture, performing tasks like spreading fertilizers and insecticides, protecting land, and drying crops, which requires specialized low-level flying ...

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 crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...

PLAINVIEW, Texas -- If flying 8 feet off the ground at 150 mph and pulling into a steep climb to avoid power lines sounds a little dicey, consider the philosophy of veteran crop-duster Ron Young. "In ...

ILLINOIS — In Northern Illinois, cornfields are a familiar sight and they play a vital role in the region’s economy and food supply. “A lot of things are made from corn, hundreds and hundreds of ...

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 ...