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SW Iowa | When I was a kid the local crop duster would fly under the power lines too. On many occasions he would have to pull strands of barbwire off the back tire of his plane. He would get low enough to catch the tops of the cow fences around here. You know what killed him, he was taking off and the wind switched, the plane fell out of the sky, and the pesticide splashed all over him when it crashed. It killed him a few days later.
One time a neighbor hired him to fly them to the Cattle Congress out in North Dakota or someplace out that way. The crazy pilot flying, the neighbor in the seat next to the pilot, and the neighbors son in the back seat. They were flying along, cruzing at a high altitude, and the pilot said, "This is boring" and pushed the wheel to the dash. The neighbor reported that when he looked out the window of the plane, the planes landing gear was hitting the wheat heads and they were flying up and down over the hills. Did that for a while, the pilot pulled back on the wheel and went back to the proper altitude for the rest of the trip. That would have been a ride!
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Crop Dusters are great pilots, maybe a little crazy too.
