Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the July 22, 2024, crop duster accident site facing west with the field being sprayed in the background. 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 ...

Modern agricultural aviation is vital for crop yield and pest control, relying on highly skilled ag pilots who execute precise, low-altitude aerial applications over millions of acres. Today's crop ...

The US Air Force plane that crashed into a field in Oklahoma late Thursday afternoon was a new special operations light attack aircraft that the service first received earlier this year. The new OA-1K ...

Ukraine strapped Soviet R-73 air-to-air missiles to a Cold War-era agricultural plane, turning a forgotten Eastern Bloc crop ...

Crop dusting planes are a key tool for keeping banana plantations free from pests, but the practice causes significant environmental and climate damage. A small but growing number of plantations are ...

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 ...

Guardian’s SC1 aerial-application eVTOL can cover 40 acres/hr. Credit: Guardian Massachusetts-based startup Guardian, which is developing an unmanned electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) crop ...

It's unlikely that a crop-duster airplane could be used successfully by terrorists, according to the North Dakota Agricultural Association. "A terrorist with minimal training will not be able to ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Robert Ray Cottingham took off in his crop duster from an Attica airport about 5:40 p.m. July 22. He had about 50 minutes left to live, according to a preliminary report from the ...