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Recently we've had a big deal of rain and it has made the farmland near us way too wet to ground spray. Our neighbour for some reason I can't understand -planted conventional cotton ( no-one does these days ) everyone plants the new genetically modified sicot 71 BRF roundup ready flex. Roundup ready simply means that you can spray roundup on the cotton and it wont kill the cotton plant but it'll bowl over the weeds. But because our neighbour put in conventional (more prone than the GM stuff) he's got a problem with some tick worm and he got it sprayed today. I took a few pictures with my 14-45mm on my GF1 so you can imagine I wasn't that far away from the aircraft.
The aircraft is a Air Tractor 502B and has a Pratt and Whitney 700HP turbo prop engine so it's pretty fast and aerobatic. They spray at about 200Kilometres an hour and carry about 1900 litres of spray.
We had a massive big storm this afternoon as you probably can tell from the black clouds. Got about 35mm (just under a inch and a half for yous yanks) in a half an hour.
Coming over the tree line at the back of our house.
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When the cotton grows to it's full hight I've seen the wheels touch the tops of the plants.
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Here he dropped down just over our shed and you can see he's got a bit of a cross wind.
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PS the grass might look a bit saturated but because of the overcast day that was it's real colour.
Thanks for looking;-)
The aircraft is a Air Tractor 502B and has a Pratt and Whitney 700HP turbo prop engine so it's pretty fast and aerobatic. They spray at about 200Kilometres an hour and carry about 1900 litres of spray.
We had a massive big storm this afternoon as you probably can tell from the black clouds. Got about 35mm (just under a inch and a half for yous yanks) in a half an hour.
Coming over the tree line at the back of our house.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50527022@N02/5237097097/" title="P1070458 by iconindustries, on Flickr"> View attachment 153790 "1024" height="768" alt="P1070458" /></a>
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When the cotton grows to it's full hight I've seen the wheels touch the tops of the plants.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50527022@N02/5237096661/" title="P1070453 by iconindustries, on Flickr"> View attachment 153792 "1024" height="768" alt="P1070453" /></a>
Here he dropped down just over our shed and you can see he's got a bit of a cross wind.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50527022@N02/5237690962/" title="P1070474 by iconindustries, on Flickr"> View attachment 153793 "1024" height="585" alt="P1070474" /></a>
PS the grass might look a bit saturated but because of the overcast day that was it's real colour.
Thanks for looking;-)