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21st Century Crop Dusting: FAA Approves Large Drone Use On Farms
CBS SF Bay Area ^ | 5/5/2015 | Staff

Posted on 06/22/2015 6:52:54 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

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To: Fungi
My first commercial flying job was with M&M Air Service just west of Beaumont TX. Flew Bull Stearmans (450hp) for three years before going into the Navy.
Best seat of the pants experience a pilot can get.
21 posted on 06/22/2015 7:24:33 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: glorgau

Intellectual property. ;-)

sorry.... neurochemical ;-)


22 posted on 06/22/2015 7:25:49 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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To: Bobalu

Check and check, but sorry.... neurochemical ;-)


23 posted on 06/22/2015 7:27:55 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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To: Bobalu
hope

That might arguably be attributed to some calcium ions running around in your brain.

24 posted on 06/22/2015 7:28:27 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

LOL...

Great minds and all that.


25 posted on 06/22/2015 7:30:26 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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To: acapesket
So for those of us who are chemically intolerant, more chemicals!

My first thought was that this would mean less chemicals, as this method of application would mean more precise placement, and less doubling up.

That's what happened when Deere started using auto-steer on tillage equipment.

Less doubling up.

26 posted on 06/22/2015 7:38:24 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Jonathan Gruber is proof that God is still smiling on Americans)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I detest spraying by airplane with a passion. Wrong wind direction, too much wind, too much altitude, poor piloting all add up to the spray going where not intended killing off trees and other unintended vegetation not to mention drifting off to someone allergic to whatever they are spraying. I recall one jerk pilot not shutting off the spray until after he crossed a road and started his U-Turn.

Couple days ago I watched some huge sprayer with large floatation tires and spray arms probably 20 - 30 feet long each. This guy could lower those arms just a few inches off the crop. He turned the spray on exactly when needed, shut it off exactly when it should be. Practically no over spray at all. This is OK.


27 posted on 06/22/2015 8:01:35 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

save fuel by not flying a pilot around.

is there any downside?


28 posted on 06/22/2015 8:31:54 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: acapesket

“Swell. So for those of us who are chemically intolerant, more chemicals! Awesome…not!”

Probably result in LESS chemicals ...


29 posted on 06/22/2015 8:41:35 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: acapesket

Not “more” just a different and likely more efficient method of applying fertilizers and pesticides already being applied. Not a bad thing for those of us trying to feed a hungry world.


30 posted on 06/22/2015 9:00:59 PM PDT by DirtyDawg (eat fruit)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Obama’s qualifications.


31 posted on 06/22/2015 9:05:05 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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To: redfreedom

Some of those applicators have GPS and computer control. The field is GPS mapped and the applicator tractor just drives over the field. Everything is computer controlled.

Toro just introduced one on a large ATV chassis for golf courses. Amazing to watch, turns off individual sprayers as the arm goes over sand traps.


32 posted on 06/22/2015 9:11:31 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This is a good thing. A lot of men have died dusting crops. It’s very dangerous.


33 posted on 06/22/2015 10:34:43 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Could be used to deliver sarin gas or crystals to spot locations.


34 posted on 06/23/2015 1:02:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Jan_Sobieski

And how long til some enterprising terrorist uses one of these babies on say a packed house for a double header at Yankee stadium?


35 posted on 06/23/2015 3:31:07 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Yamaha RMAX:


36 posted on 06/23/2015 3:41:08 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Or as a last resort:


37 posted on 06/23/2015 3:44:30 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: acapesket

“chemically intolerant, more chemicals!”

You may be intolerant, but you are not “chemically intolerant”. No such thing.

You sound like a total Luddite. Fear and Ignorance is no way to go through life.


38 posted on 06/23/2015 9:54:57 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

Wow!
Is that like being a “Denier”?
If so, I am signing up.

One can become physically ill through the introduction of pesticides.

You too, my FRiend may be of supreme “intolerance” JMHO.


39 posted on 06/23/2015 7:16:10 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: Joe Boucher
And how long til some enterprising terrorist uses one of these babies on say a packed house for a double header at Yankee stadium?

Not much longer than using a regular old aereoplane to the same thing. Really, if they want to hit us, they will. Nothing's going to stop them save removing them from our country.

40 posted on 06/26/2015 8:02:00 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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