Sing along here with The Hunter Brothers as they deal with their combine stuck in a sprayer rut. This video put together during the harvest of 2016, which many want to forgot. Their humour always makes us smile and they certainly make an important pitch for the use of an airplane!
Had a great opportunity today to capture the Farr Air trio of 510P's today. Congratulatons!
Most days the Thrush aircraft is thought of as a rugged built crop spraying plane. Imagine it now with armor, rockets, bombs and missiles. Visit our Thrush page to learn more about the very cost effective work the transformed Thrush 660 is doing for light warfare missions.
You know VG's help aircraft flight dynamics and now the USDA is studying the affect VG's have on helping the spray pattern too. Contact us about getting a set of VG's for your plane. Here is the link to the article.
Congratulations to the Farr Family and Farr Air! They've added the 3rd 510P to their aerial application company. See more pictures here,
Mike Mullane was the keynote breakfast speaker at the 2016 NAAA. We have reprinted, from the NAAA eNewsletter, a great summary of his talk and message. As a suggestions, consider using this for your re-current training program this spring. Get the reprint here.
Excellent new advancement coming to our Ag Air Industry: Jared Storm of Hershey Flying Service has taken on the mission of improving Air Tractor and Thrush wind shields to protect Ag pilots from a potential drone strike and bird strikes. Working through 2016 he has found an option with new state of the art technology as seen in row 4 in the picture below (the current Air Tractor windshield…
Big thanks to Brett Werdal and Celine Raisbeck from FCC for visiting our hangar today. They came to learn more about the growing role of Ag Planes in helping Canada's ag producers supply quality food to the world. Their approach: learn more to serve better. That's proactive and refreshing.
"It's extremely specialized and requires the aviator to be half farmer, half fighter pilot (in that order)..." From our American Friend, Michael Rutledge, a former navy SEAL who landed on the X in the middle night and has now turned ag pilot... He goes on to say "...Crop dusting is the near perfect combination of precision, speed, and adrenaline, with a little freedom and…
We've reached double digits on our Thrush Sales Program. #9 and #10 sold in September, #11 last week. Are you #12? Building a Thrush nation, one plane at a time.
